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Other-race faces: Why do they seem different?
This is a guest post by Rivka Ihejirika, one of Greta’s top student writers for Spring 2007 Do you find it harder to recognize the face of someone from a race other than your own? Does it take you...
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Implicit attitudes: How children develop biases about race
[originally posted on February 2, 2006] In connection to Monday’s posting, Other-race faces: Why do they seem different?, I thought readers would be interested in a post from early last year concerning...
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Why having those annoying little siblings around constantly was probably good...
This is a guest post by Martina Mustroph, one of Greta’s top student writers for Spring 2007 Rats are often useful models for understanding human behavior,. Testing drugs on rats before testing them on...
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Synesthesia more prevalent than originally thought
This is a guest post by Jonathan Leathers, one of Greta’s top student writers for Spring 2007. Take a look at this word: MONDAY What color do you see? Red? Blue? While you may see nothing unusual, some...
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High IQ: Not as good for you as you thought
A continuation of our “greatest hits” from past Cognitive Daily postings: [originally posted on December 14, 2005] IQ has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands of research studies. Scholars...
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We recognize siblings based solely on facial similarity
This is a guest post by Christy Tucker, one of Greta’s top student writers from Spring of 2007. Take a look at the following paintings. How alike are they? How can you tell–which clues help you...
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A boy and his dog
A continuation of our “greatest hits” from past Cognitive Daily postings: [originally posted on July 11, 2005] There’s something about kids and dogs. The phrase “A boy and his dog” brings up quite a...
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Attentional Set: Set in stone?
This is a guest post by Daniel Griffin, one of Greta’s top student writers from Spring of 2007. Does anything seem stick out about this sentence? I’m sure that if I told you to keep looking for yellow...
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A continuation of our “greatest hits” from past Cognitive Daily postings: [originally posted on September 27, 2005] All this talk about stereotypes can get you thinking. Perhaps some stereotypes...
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Lights! Action! Kids!
This is a guest post by Laura Younger, one of Greta’s top student writers for Spring 2007. Take a look at these static images from a video clip. Can you tell what the person is doing? It might be hard...
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