An entrée of Cognitive Science with an occasional side of whatever the hell else I want to talk about.
Cognitive stuff from a cognitive person. If you've got any requests, drop me an email. If it takes me a while to get to it, drop me another one.
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February 17, 2008
Category: Social Cognition
I've been hanging out with fellow atheists for a while now, and one of the more common discussions I've had when the topic of religion comes up is, why are people religious? The two most common answers I've heard from...
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February 12, 2008
Category: Politics
Looks like a couple of my fellow SBers have managed to get a date and location for their presidential debate on science, and have invited the candidates (Clinton, Obama, Huckabee, and McCain). I still think this is an absolutely terrible...
Posted by Chris at 12:54 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 11, 2008
Category: Research & Theory
The January issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science (the same journal that gave us the alien IAT) has some really interesting, and short, review articles. Unfortunately, they're only available with a subscription, but for those of you who...
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February 4, 2008
Category: Cognitive Psychology
One of the criticisms of most false memory research is that it lacks ecological validity. For example, in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, a common method for inducing false memories in the lab, involves giving participants a bunch of words (e.g.,...
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February 3, 2008
Category: Blogs and Blogging
Sorry for not posting lately. Some of you may remember the experiment I asked for help with a while back (here). Well, we've got good data now, and we spent the last week or so rushing to put it together...
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