Tag Archives: psychology

Sandy Hook and Useless Common Sense on Guns

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

As a parent and a human being, I am horrified and terrified by the events of last week in Newtown, Connecticut.  I have hugged my kids, I have sat and cried upon reading notes sent by six year old best … Continue reading →

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Neurobabble: Inflated Credibility Currency

Posted on November 26, 2012 by

My fingers did. Ok, not really, but both are limited views of the complex process of writing this post. It seems that the tide may be turning on neurobabble, and I thought I would contribute a few thoughts. A recent … Continue reading →

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Myths Come From Values, Not From Ignorance

Posted on November 18, 2012 by

Like many interested in how we apply basic cognitive science to education, I was interested in the recent finding that many teachers still endorse many myths and misconceptions about neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Here is the original paper, and an … Continue reading →

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Reflections about my Experiment with General Psychology

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

I promised to update the few of you interested in my experiment in General Psychology last semester. You can have a more thorough description of my logic and motivation here, but the basic themes were this: A point system, with … Continue reading →

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Put your Head up to the Meta – A Peer Reviews Post-Post Publication Peer Review – A Bargh full of links

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Attention conservation notice: This post dives into some inside baseball stuff on social psychology, how the science of psychology is practiced, and how science is communicated online. It is kind of long, but I intend it as sort of a … Continue reading →

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How to Misspell your Allusions – Riener on Dyson on Kahneman (and Freud and James)

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

Ok, let me begin by saying how much I love the New York Review of Books. You should totally subscribe to it. It is generally great content, and they make a lot of it free online to free loaders like … Continue reading →

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Chapter 3: Operationism and Essentialism

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

The subtitle of this chapter is “But Doctor, what does it really mean?” What does gravity really mean? Not just measurements of how fast things fall, but what is gravity, really? Stanovich points out that often the lay public wants … Continue reading →

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