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Greta Munger is Professor of Psychology at Davidson College whose works include The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions. Dave Munger is co-founder and editor of ResearchBlogging.org and a columnist on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. And yes, he is married to Greta.
Category: News
There's an interesting article in the Washington Post today exploring one line of reasoning suggesting that the Iranian election is fraudulent. Basically, it comes down to this: the results aren't random enough. In a fair election, you'd expect that each...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:59 AM • 26 Comments •
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Here at Encephalon's temporary North Carolina headquarters, we were miffed to learn that our long-scheduled Keynote address has been upstaged by some upstart computer company's manufactured "event" in California. Not to be outdone, we're giving Encephalon an upgrade of our...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:31 PM • 2 Comments •
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For nine months, you've been able to read posts on ResearchBlogging.org in German and English. Soon, the site will be launching support for Spanish. Evaristo Rojas-Mayoral has created a blog to collect the names and URLs of interested blogs. If...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:36 AM • 3 Comments •
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PLoS ONE turns two this month, and to celebrate, they're partnering with ResearchBlogging.org to make history on December 18. On that day, we're asking bloggers to write about one of the thousands of articles that have appeared on PLoS ONE...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:13 PM • 2 Comments •
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Yesterday Dan Ariely came to Davidson to give a few lectures and meet with faculty in the Economics, Philosophy, and Psychology departments. Greta attended two of the lectures and had dinner with him (along with the rest of the Davidson...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:35 PM • 36 Comments •
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You might think the zoo is an odd place for psychology bloggers to meet up. But on Saturday not only did Greta and I get a chance to connect with some of our readers and fellow bloggers, we also received...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:36 AM • 7 Comments •
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Over the weekend we finished transferring ResearchBlogging.org from its dependably quirky old home to sleek new digs. If you haven't visited the site in the past 72 hours, you should definitely head over to take a look -- or even...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:50 AM • 5 Comments •
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Over at Sciam's Mind Matters blog, Greta and I have written a guest post about tone deafness and bad singing: Although there have been many studies of perceptual tone deafness, or amusia, few have compared people's ability to hear differences...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:50 PM • 7 Comments •
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The biweekly neuroscience / psychology carnival Encephalon is now live over at the Neurocritic. There are tons of great posts but one of my favorites has to be this one: Would you vaccinate your kids against drugs?...
Posted by Dave Munger at 6:19 AM • 0 Comments •
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Quick, solve this problem 3 + 5 * 7 = ? If you still recall high school algebra, you'll remember that you should be doing the multiplication problem first. So the answer would be 35 + 3, or 38. But...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:19 PM • 12 Comments •
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