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    Americans flunk self-assessment, according to NPR
  • Prof. David Dunning talked to Alix Spiegel in a "Science Out of the Box" segment of NPR's All Things Considered on October 6, 2007. The complete interview, in which he discusses his research on the sometimes critical gap between Americans' perceived, and actual, performance and skill levels can be heard at the url below.
  • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15073430&ft=1&f=1001
  • Posted: Tuesday, October 9, 2007

    James Maas named Best Professor in IthacaTimes Readers Poll
  • Each year the IthacaTimes publishes a poll for readers about their favorite things in town. Recently, the department's Prof. James Maas learned he had been named "Best Professor" by the respondents. The results, including Maas' response to his award, were published in the September 26-October 2, 2007 edition of the paper.
  • http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18859628&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=216635&rfi=6
  • Posted: Wednesday, September 26, 2007

    Psychology Professors respond to questions of limited application of research findings
  • Department faculty were asked by The Cornell Daily Sun to respond to a recent article published in The Wall Street Journal which alleges that psychological research departments on college campuses operate with too narrow a testing pool. The WS Jarticle asserts that the exclusive use of college students as study subjects provides only a slim demographic for research, ultimately limiting the findings.
  • http://cornellsun.com/node/23958
  • Posted: Monday, September 17, 2007

    Prof. Timothy DeVoogd completes lecture tour in Bangladesh
  • A story in The Daily Star of Bangladesh, reports on Professor Tim DeVoogd's week long lecture tour under the auspices of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation during the month of December 2006.
  • http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/12/26/d61226062177.htm
  • Posted: Thursday, January 25, 2007

    Multitasking different jobs is no problem, but double talk overwhelms us, Cornell study finds
  • We can listen to a car radio and drive while keeping an eye on changing traffic conditions – separate complex tasks completed without much trouble. But if two people are talking to us at the same time, our perceptual frequencies get jammed.
        A new Cornell study shows that people are pretty good at perceptual multitasking – except when multiple sources of incoming stimuli are of the same type. Morten Christiansen, associate professor of psychology, co-authored the study with Christopher Conway, a National Institutes of Health research fellow at Indiana University [and a Cornell Psychology Ph.D. graduate].
        Humans learn “sequential structure from multiple sources at the same time, as long as the sensory characteristics of the sources do not overlap,” Christiansen said.
        Participants in the study experienced little difficulty learning complex structures streamed at them simultaneously, such as tones and colors or even tones and speech.
        “However, performance dropped when the two sets of sequences were from the same perceptual class of stimuli, such as two sets of speech stimuli,” said Conway. “Overall, these results show that humans have a powerful learning system that is capable of learning sequential patterns simultaneously from multiple environmental sources -– provided each source is perceived as being distinct.”
        The study will appear in the October issue of Psychological Science.
    This article by Franklin Crawford appeared in the "Research Notebook" column of the Cornell Chronicle on October 12, 2006.
  • Posted: Monday, October 16, 2006

    The sound of a word tells us something about how it is used, Cornell study shows
  • Associate Professor Morten Christiansen's publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on his study analyzing the sounds of nouns and verbs is described in a July 2006 edition of the Cornell Chronicle Online. The research was conducted by Christiansen, Cornell graduate student Thomas Farmer, and Padraic Monaghan, a lecturer at the University of York in England.
        Details of this research were also reported on FoxNews Linguistic Surprise: Nouns, Verbs Phonetically Different.
  • http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July06/Christiansen.PNAS.fac.html
  • Posted: Saturday, September 16, 2006

    Most Americans aren't likely to make big cuts in gasoline use
  • Cornell Professor David Dunning is interviewed by USA Today about the psychology behind people's reactions to increasing gasoline prices. Also featured in the article is Cornell Psychology Ph.D. program graduate Nick Epley.
  • http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2006-05-15-conserve-usat_x.htm
  • Posted: Tuesday, May 16, 2006

    Undergrads redesign Wilder Brain Collection display case
  • The showcase exhibiting eight brains from Cornell's Wilder Brain Collection on the second floor of Uris Hall has been redesigned, restaged and relighted, thanks to the volunteer efforts of two undergraduate students, Bernadette Acuna '07 and Robyn Finkelstein '06, with the assistance of department staff member Elizabeth Chandler.
        Susan S. Lang of The Cornell News Service featured the story in the Cornell Chronicle of May 11, 2006.
  • http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May06/Wilder.brains.ssl.html
  • Posted: Friday, May 12, 2006


 
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