On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash in Paris. The crash was ruled to be the consequence of her driver losing control over the vehicle because he was intoxicated and under the influence of prescription drugs. Her death brought home a message that has been at the center of […]
We all get tired. Sometimes we get so tired that we find it almost impossible to stay awake. Especially if we are in a meeting of the parking committee, and perhaps even if we are a meerkat: Although we are all familiar with the feeling of fatigue, we may not always realize that fatigue comes […]
We have talked about pop-out before. The phenomenon is nearly self-explanatory: consider the two sets of dots in the figure below. There are 18 dots on the left and 150 on the right. In each array, there is a single red dot: what is your intuition about how long it would take to detect the […]
About 20 years ago a conference on working memory was held in Quebec City, Canada. One of the eminent visitors from the UK had to return home early. He successfully navigated to the Quebec City airport, flew to Toronto or Montreal to catch a connecting flight to Heathrow. All went well until a customs officer […]
Perhaps like no other animal, dogs have been offering companionship to us humans for millennia. Indeed, it has been suggested that dogs have been partners in our evolutionary journey. Dogs split from grey wolves more than 30,000 years ago. Since then, the brains and some other organs of domestic dogs have evolved in ways that […]
Those of you who are soccer fans may find the following passage easy to follow: “In a new age for football, AZ had a goal against Cambuur disallowed for a foul on the keeper after the decision was reviewed. Stijn Wuytens thought he had won the game for his side only to be called back […]
Search for “can women read maps?” and Google will reward you with more than 300,000,000 hits. I haven’t read them all but the first few hits are pretty clear in their verdict, namely that women cannot read maps. And the book, “Why men don’t listen and women can’t read maps” is likely at the top […]
The International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Amsterdam wrapped up on Saturday (12 May). The meeting was attended by around 700 delegates and featured keynote addresses by John Wixted and Dedre Gentner. Some photos of the meeting are available on the Society’s website. The meeting also featured 7 symposia: Tackling the Confidence Crisis with […]
The last two weeks leading up to the international meeting in Amsterdam (more on that soon) were taken up with a series of posts that discussed issues surrounding diversity and inclusion in the Psychonomic Society and in science generally. This #PSDiversityandInclusion digital event was our largest to date with 8 posts spread over two weeks, […]
Next week’s #PSD&I Digital Event is dedicated to diversity and inclusion, broadly defined, and how it relates to all aspects of the activities of the Psychonomic society and its members. The Psychonomic Society is committed to diversity and inclusion, as stated on its webpage: “Most scientists in psychological research agree that diversity, both ethnic and […]