Stories Matter—And Shape Our Field Every Day

History Made Every Day

With the explosion in the number of images and videos on the Internet and ongoing amassing of huge volumes of visual data from digital cameras and mobile devices, we are unknowingly logging our own history. Consider that the number of digital cameras and camera phones in the world has surpassed one billion and that 500 billion consumer photos are taken each year. Given the world’s population of...

Reasoning in every day life

To be rational means to be able to reason. Thirty years ago psychologists believed that human reasoning is depending on formal rules of inference akin to those of the logical calculus. This hypothesis ran into difficulties, which led to creating more categories of reasoning. They are trying to describe human reasoning with all pros and cons and to simulate reasoning of human mind. We will descr...

The Use of Virtual Reality in Studying Complex Interventions in Our Every-Day Food Environment

Nomina sunt consequentia rerum – Sound – shape correspondences with every - day objects figures

Prior research on sound-symbolism has demonstrated the existence of sound–shape correspondences using ad hoc figures in double forced-choice paradigms. This led sound-symbolic skeptics to affirm that the reported effects were due to the properties of the figures shown or to the structure of the task used. In the present study, we hypothesized that the sound–shape correspondence effect would be ...

Bring Your Self to Work Day—Every Day

But at other moments, the classroom is so lifeless or painful or confused—and I am so powerless to do anything about it—that my claim to be a teacher seems a transparent sham. Then the enemy is everywhere: in those students from some alien planet, in that subject I thought I knew, and in the personal pathology that keeps me earning my living this way. What a fool I was to imagine that I had mas...