Science or Sciencey [part 3]
Part three of a 4-part series examining what happens when science is used for marketing (using brain-training software as the central example). [part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4] [Full disclosure: I...
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The final part of a 4-part series examining what happens when science is used for marketing (using brain-training software as the central example). [part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4] [Full disclosure:...
View ArticleScience or Sciencey [afterward]
On 1 October 2010, I completed an extended series of posts examining the interplay between science and marketing. In the piece, I used a blog post on the Posit Science website as a case study of the...
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What you’ll reveal to a computer
Reto Schneider has a great post about a study by Youngme Moon. The study took advantage of the well-known reciprocity effect. People are more likely to provide information, money, assistance, etc. to...
View ArticleChess as an analogy for science
In this video, Richard Feynman explains the process of scientific discovery via an analogy to an observer “discovering” the rules of chess. This is science communication at its best:
View ArticleSeeing the world as it isn’t
An earlier version of this post appeared on my Psychology Today blog on April 30, 2010. When we look at the world around us, we feel that we are seeing it as it is. Most of the time, we are — but not...
View Articlegorillas, working memory, and the media
This week you might have seen some coverage resulting from a press release out of the University of Utah about a new inattentional blindness study by Seegmiller, Watson, & Strayer. Here are some...
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Another early study of Inattentional Blindness
Back in October on our Psychology Today blog, I posted about my re-discovery of what I then thought was the earliest systematic study of inattentional blindness. Turns out I was wrong. Inattentional...
View ArticleThe consequences of being ignored (for colored shapes, at least)
I have just returned from the annual Vision Sciences Society meeting and saw some really fascinating presentations. Over the next couple weeks, I’ll feature a few of them. The first one addresses the...
View ArticleGhost busters, parapsychology, and the first study of inattentional blindness
Originally posted last year our now-inactive Psychology Today blog: Until last week, I thought I knew the full history of research on inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness is the failure to...
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