Worst (Science) Pun
After my call for puns, I got some really bad ones, but I think I may have found the worst pun ever, and its a science pun too (via RPM): toothpastefordinner.com Ouch!...
Posted by Chris at 5:25 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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May 20, 2008
"The Allegory of the Trolley Problem Paradox"
Category: Philosophy
Funny stuff....
Posted by Chris at 5:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 19, 2008
Darwin's Mistake
Category: Comparative Psychology
Got your attention, right? That's the title of a paper by Penn, Holyoak, and Povinelli in April's Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Well, the full title is "Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds." Here's the abstract: Over...
Posted by Chris at 6:46 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 16, 2008
Getting Crows to Clean Up After Us
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Interesting (and short) video of a talk by Joshua Klein (via HENRY) on how smart crows are, and how we might use their intelligence:...
Posted by Chris at 4:44 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 13, 2008
Society for Philosohpy and Psychology Conference
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...
Posted by Chris at 1:52 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Media and Female Body Image
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...
Posted by Chris at 12:34 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 9, 2008
Does the Foundation of Prejudice Lie in Native Language?
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...
Posted by Chris at 2:48 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 7, 2008
Metaphysics with Computers
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...
Posted by Chris at 3:10 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Puns
Category: Miscellaneous
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...
Posted by Chris at 1:56 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 6, 2008
Insignificant vs. Non-significant
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,...
Posted by Chris at 5:36 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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