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Thursday, March 4th, 2010If you love a good old-fashioned statistical brawl, head on over to your university library and pick up a copy of March’s issue of Psychological Bulletin (that’s volume 136, issue 2, for those of you who prefer numbers to months).
First up: Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, and prosocial behavior in Eastern and […]
I’ve never been to New York City - except for the airport
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Next week I will be in New York City participating in the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium, which is a great honour since it’s invitation only. We’re taking a couple of days of vacation in addition, so I’ll finally be able to see some of those famous NYC sites. I am particularly looking forward to […]
Expertise and time perception
Friday, November 6th, 2009Now this is interesting: a study that suggests that experts perceive words from their own domain of knowledge as having been presented longer than other words:
Experts often appear to perceive time differently from novices. The current study thus examined perceptions of time as a function of domain expertise. Specifically, individuals with high or low levels […]
Against the so-called link between violence in media and aggression in children
Monday, May 25th, 2009Thank you, Dr. Castronova, for explaining why all the research on links between violence in media and aggression in children is not very convincing. I always get annoyed when I read about this type of research in the media (especially the present boogieman of violent games), but I would never have been able to explain […]
Cuteologists unite!
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009If you know me, you know that I’m a big fan of Cute Overload. Puppies! Kitties! It’s my go-to site during lunch breaks. Also, I tell every woman I meet about it (yes, I’m aware that I’m being unbelievably sexist there, but most guys I know don’t get the attraction of teh kute).
Anyway, apparently, if […]
Another study on expertise
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009This one is entitled Passive perceptual learning in relation to wine: Short-term recognition and verbal description, and was written by Angus L. Hughson and Robert A. Boakes, and published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 62, issue 1, pages 1-8, January 2009.
This experiment addressed the question of whether untutored experience of drinking wine […]
Increased interestingness of extraneous details in a multimedia science presentation leads to decreased learning
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008This study should be of interest to the computer-mediated learning folks: Richard E. Mayer, Emily Griffith, Ilana T. N.Jurkowitz, and Daniel Rothman, Increased interestingness of extraneous details in a multimedia science presentation leads to decreased learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Vol 14(4), Dec 2008, 329-339.
In Experiment 1, students received an illustrated […]
