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Greta Munger is Professor of Psychology at Davidson College whose works include The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions. Dave Munger now writes at The Daily Monthly. He is co-founder and editor of ResearchBlogging.org and a columnist on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. And yes, he is married to Greta.
December 31, 2009
Category: Research
[Originally published in November 2007] Both Greta and I are big wine fans. Despite Jonah's recent extremely popular post, I, at least, believe that I can tell the difference between good and bad wines. I'm still convinced that a good...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:55 PM • 10 Comments •
December 24, 2009
Category: News
Television can have a huge influence on our lives. But the most important influences may be the ones we don't even notice. I discuss several fascinating studies about television in my latest column on Seedmagazine.com. Here's a snippet: Travis Saunders,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:26 PM • 10 Comments •
December 22, 2009
Category: Research
[Originally published in January, 2006] Clicking on the image below will take you to a short Quicktime movie. Make sure you have your sound turned up, because I've recorded a few sentences that play along with the movie. Your job...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:18 AM • 10 Comments •
December 17, 2009
Category: Research
Suppose your organization is interviewing candidates for an important job. Would it be better for one trusted person to have an extended interview with them, or for several people to talk to them for less time? How many people would...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:48 PM • 4 Comments •
December 16, 2009
Category: News
My column on Seedmagazine.com today explores citizen science: serious, peer-reviewed research that relies on the contributions of ordinary individuals. While the projects range from cosmology to zoology, there are plenty of psychology projects too: Project Implicit is an ongoing series...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:19 AM • 7 Comments •
December 11, 2009
Category: Casual Fridays
For last week's Casual Fridays study we asked respondents to answer James Lipton's famous ten questions from Inside the Actor's Studio. In case you've never seen the show, here are the questions: What is your favorite word? What is your...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:04 PM • 17 Comments •
December 10, 2009
Category: Research
I attended an unusual middle school. It was designed on an "open concept," with the idea that there should be no walls between classrooms. Social pressure would keep the noise levels down, because if kids got too loud, then their...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:15 PM • 3 Comments •
December 8, 2009
Category: Research
Nalini Ambady has become famous for her research on "thin slicing," the idea that ordinary people can make accurate judgments about others amazingly quickly. We've discussed work from her lab showing that people can accurately predict teaching ability by watching...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:17 PM • 27 Comments •
December 4, 2009
Category: Casual Fridays
At the end of every episode of Inside the Actor's Studio, interviewer James Lipton asks his celebrity guests the exact same 10 questions, most notably, "What's your favorite curse word?" But why should celebrities have all the fun? We thought...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:52 AM • 6 Comments •
December 2, 2009
Category: In other news
In case you missed them, here are my picks of psychology/neuroscience posts from ResearchBlogging.org from the past two weeks: The fatter we get, the less we seem to notice. Peter Janiszewski examines changing perceptions of what it means to be...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:27 PM • •
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