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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 president of ResearchBlogging.org and a writer whose works include Researching Online. And yes, he is married to Greta.
Category: Research
I've always been amazed by people who are truly bilingual. While I've studied languages in school, I've never been able to seamlessly switch between languages, and even my best non-English language, French, is choppy at best. Compare this to the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:01 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: Research
Take a look at this video. Your job: decide which person speaks first: Click to view Video 1 (QuickTime required) Let's make this a poll: Which person in Video 1 speaks first?(web poll) Now, try another one. Once again, decide...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:34 PM • 7 Comments •
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If, like me, you grew up in the U.S. in the 1970s and 80s, you probably remember the game show Name That Tune, where contestants heard brief snippets from popular songs and had to name them as quickly as possible....
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:25 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Research
The SNARC effect is a fascinating phenomenon (and no, it has nothing to do with cheeky one-off blog posts). When asked to recognize numbers, people react faster with their left hand for low numbers, and faster with their right hand...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:01 PM • 18 Comments •
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I was a member of my high school debate team, and I did fairly well, but my partner, Glenn, always got better marks from the judges. Most often, they praised his hand gestures, which were proclaimed to be "expressive" and...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:27 PM • 6 Comments •
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One of stand-up comic George Carlin's most famous routines was the seven words you can't say on TV (obviously, not safe for work). He repeated the words over and over, and it was hilarious -- especially back in the days...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:13 PM • 33 Comments •
Category: Research
Take a look at this video made by fellow ScienceBlogger Dr. Isis. She's talking with her son, a toddler who adorably mimics her as she says very complicated words such as "Adventures in Ethics and Science" and "Wackaloon" (but sadly,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:12 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Research
Baby sign language is all the rage these days. Upscale day-care centers and nanny services promote it as a better way of understanding what babies want. Babies have been known to reliably produce signs as young as 5.5 months, and...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:27 PM • 19 Comments •
Category: Research
Nora was an excellent talker, starting at a very young age, but that didn't mean that she couldn't express herself in other ways. Here, for example, she points to a the item she wants. It's entirely possible that she didn't...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:58 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Research
I've always been a fan of literary studies -- I was an English major in college and I continue to blog about literature on my personal blog. But when I first learned about the concept of alliteration (I must have...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:07 AM • 5 Comments •
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