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I was asked to post this. Judging by the list of presenters and the topics, it sounds like an interesting conference. Announcing the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology June 26-29, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA...
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Posted by Chris at 1:52 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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There's a paper by Grabe, Ward, and Hyde in this month's issue of Psychological Bulletin that presents a meta-analysis of 77 studies (correlational and experimental) on the relationship between the media's presentation of (overly) thin women and women's body image...
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Category: Cognitive Development
Who says religion and science can't go together well? I just read an interesting paper by Kinzler et al.(1), published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with apparent Biblical inspiration (OK, maybe not), as it...
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Category: Miscellaneous
More fluff while I grade papers... While you're giving me your puns (see below), you should also give me your best (slightly) pejorative and (hopefully) funny descriptions of cognitive psychology/science. The two best I've heard, both from the same attention...
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I'll get back to substantive posting in a bit, but as the semester wraps up, I wanted to ask for your help. Over the years, punning has become a more and more integral part of our lab meetings. It's reached...
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Category: Miscellaneous
Like 99.8% of the people in psychology departments, I hate teaching statistics, in large part because it's boring as hell, for both the instructors and the students, but also because students have a hell of a time grasping it,...
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Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
Then listen to this set of lectures from the 2007 Advanced Neuroimaging Summer School at UCLA....
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