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May 31, 2007

Are Conservatives Less Creative?

Category: Social Cognition

The belief that creativity and political conservatism are negatively correlated is widespread not only among the general public (except, maybe, among some conservatives), but among researchers in a variety of fields. And there are some indirect empirical justifications for this...

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May 28, 2007

There Died a Myriad

Category: Miscellaneous

Originally posted on the old blog on Memorial Day 2005. On Memorial Day, I'm always reminded of the poems of war because, perhaps more than any other form of literature, they paint of it a picture that is more real...

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Thinking About Evolution (Slight Reprise)

Category: Cognitive Psychology

A little over a year ago, I wrote a post describing some research showing that there are cognitive barriers to understanding evolution. There I listed three specific factors: Intuitive theism, in which our intuitions lead us to make design inferences...

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Category: Blogs and Blogging

I haven't really updated the blogroll much since, well, I first created it. So if you've got a blog that fits into one of the categories over there on the left, including "seriously good but I don't know what to...

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May 26, 2007

My Son's Favorite Song

Category: Miscellaneous

Last night, I took my son to his favorite diner to celebrate the end of 3rd grade. Just before our dinner arrived, a song came on the radio and he stopped talking, listened for a second, and said, "Hey, it's...

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May 20, 2007

Cool Visual Illusions: Kanizsa's Triangle In 3D, and Moving

Category: Visual Illusions

Everybody's seen Kanizsa's triangle: It's a simple illusory figure illusion, first reported by Kanizsa(1). The illusion is likely caused by the processes that the visual system uses to separate figures from their ground(2), but to date there doesn't appear to...

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May 17, 2007

Mind Metaphors

Category: Cognitive Psychology

Some of you who are interested in the history of psychology or philosophy of mind might find this paper interesting: Gentner, D., & Grudin, J. (1985). The evolution of mental metaphors in psychology: A 90-year retrospective. American Psychologist, 40(2), 181-192....

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May 15, 2007

Cool Visual Illusions: The Winking Effect and Other Luminance-Contrast Illusions

Category: Visual Illusions

In honor of the announcement of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year (via Steve), I thought I'd revive the old cool visual illusion series. I may post about this year's winner, the leaning tower illusion, in the future, but...

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May 14, 2007

Second Annual Online Philosophy Conference

Category: Philosophy

The second Online Philosophy Conference has begun, and the first week's presentations are up. If you didn't participate in last year's OPC, here's how it works: a presentation and one or two responses are posted for you to read, and...

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May 11, 2007

Does Ceiling Height Affect the Way You Think?

Category: Cognitive Psychology

File this one in the annals of "huh?" There's been a lot of research over the last decade or so on what only be described as the bizarre implicit priming of social concepts. In a typical experiment, participants are given...

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