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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: Research
As an undergraduate, at my school it was practically a requirement to steal silverware from the campus cafeteria. There were students who'd commandeered full sets of china. The desk clerk at my dorm used to say that the only thing...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:55 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Research
Imagine your neighbor has a dog that regularly escapes her yard. One day you see the dog escape and return it to her. She thanks you by giving you a piece of delicious home-made apple pie. This happens several days...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:01 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Research
How did you decide to read this post? You might have seen the headline in an RSS reader or noticed it on the ScienceBlogs home page. Maybe someone emailed or tweeted the link to you. But you still had to...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:30 AM • 27 Comments •
Category: Research
[This post was originally published in September, 2007] Here's a task that four-year-olds can do but three-year-olds have some trouble with. Imagine Sally in the picture below is playing with a ball. She puts the ball in the box and...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:59 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Research
Implicit attitudes and associations can tell us a lot about a person. It's a way to find out if they might have a racial or gender bias, and recently there has even been some work suggesting that an implicit association...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:36 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Research
[Originally posted in April 2007] Cognitive decline as we age is all over the news lately. "Brain fitness" products are available for cell phones, Game Boys, and Xboxes, all designed to prevent the natural decline in cognitive ability as we...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:53 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Research
When school budgets are cut, programs in music and the arts are often the first to get axed. While this makes a certain amount of sense because music isn't always considered "essential" to education, recently in the U.S. we're starting...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:21 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: Research
My computer has over 5,000 songs on it -- 16.2 days' worth, according to my music-playing software. So how do I pick what song to listen to? More often than not, I just shuffle the whole list and play whatever...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:08 AM • 35 Comments •
Category: Research
It's pretty obvious to most people that the two shoes in this picture are the same size: But if you actually took a ruler to your computer display it would show that the image of my right shoe is nearly...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:12 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Research
[This article was originally posted in December, 2006] I'm not bitter about this, honest I'm not, but it does often seem that people who know you very well end up buying really lousy gifts. What I really want to find...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:28 AM • 8 Comments •
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