One thing about being a scientist interested in how people think and how different groups of people think differently is that you constantly notice differences in how scientists and non-scientists think differently. For instance, scientists like...

The new Lab is launched (finally). I was a long ways from the first to start running experiments on the Web. Nonetheless, when I got started in late 2006, the Web had mostly been used for surveys, and there were only a few examples of really successful...

I just had a manuscript rejected. I like to believe I handled it better. Read the blog: http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/ Do the research: http://coglanglab.org

Geoff Nunberg has a fantastic Fresh Air commentary posted on his website about the political misuse of linguistic information. Pundits frequently use statistical information about language -- the frequency of the word I in a politicians speeches, for...

GamesWithWords.org, the successor to CogLangLab.org will (hopefully) be launched within the next week or so. The blog name itself has changed in advance. And, in fact, you will find that the gameswithwords.org URL already works, though it just takes...