Podcasts by Two Psychologists Four Beers
Two psychologists endeavor to drink four beers while discussing news and controversies in science, academia, and beyond.
Further podcasts by Yoel Inbar and Michael Inzlicht
Podcast on the topic Sozialwissenschaften
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Episode 110: RE-RELEASE: Destigmatizing Mental Health (with Andrew Devendorf) from 2023-10-04T06:00
Andrew Devendorf joins Alexa and Yoel to discuss his work on "me-search" (or self-relevant research) within clinical psychology. He talks about the prevalence of mental health difficulties within t...
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Episode 109: RE-RELEASE: Against Mindfulness from 2023-09-27T17:00
Playing devil's advocate, Yoel and Mickey mount a criticism against the scientific study of mindfulness. What is mindfulness? Can we measure it? Is mindfulness-based therapy effective? Can mindfuln...
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Episode 108: RE-RELEASE: We Need to Talk About Fraud from 2023-09-20T06:00
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Joe Simmons to talk about fraud. We go in-depth on a recent high-profile fraud case, but we also talk about scientific fraud more generally: how common is it, how do yo...
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Episode 107: Against Anti-DEI Rhetoric from 2023-08-30T06:00
Jennifer Gutsell joins Alexa to discuss the controversy surrounding Yoel's experience interviewing at UCLA. They focus on a post, written by Alexa, in which she pushes back against defenses of "vi...
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Episode 106: We Need to Talk About Fraud Again from 2023-06-23T11:00
Harkening back to episode 73, Alexa and Yoel discuss recent evidence of fraud documented in the Data Colada blog post "Clusterfake." The post is the first in a series of four, which will collective...
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Episode 105: Patchwork Politics from 2023-05-17T05:00
In heated political debates, people are often accused of being hypocrites, lacking consistent foundational values. Today, Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent paper by David Pinsof, David Sears, and Mar...
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Episode 104: Quantifying the Narrative of Replicable Science from 2023-03-29T08:30
Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent paper that takes a machine learning approach to estimating the replicability of psychology as a discipline. The researchers' investigation begins with a training pro...
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Episode 103: Psych (with Paul Bloom) from 2023-03-08T06:00
Alexa and Yoel chat with Paul Bloom about his newest book, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind (https://amzn.to/3ZrycHk). The book, built from Paul's popular Introduction to Psychology course, is an...
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Episode 102: Destigmatizing Mental Health (with Andrew Devendorf) from 2023-02-08T06:00
Andrew Devendorf joins Alexa and Yoel to discuss his work on "me-search" (or self-relevant research) within clinical psychology. He talks about the prevalence of mental health difficulties within t...
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Episode 101: An Outside Perspective on Implicit Bias from 2023-01-18T06:00
Alexa and Yoel discuss the much trodden topic of implicit bias from a less trodden perspective: that of the general public. Offering insight into the public's views is a paper by Jeffrey Yen, Kevin...
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Episode 100: What Happened at Perspectives on Psychological Science? from 2022-12-23T06:00
Yoel and special guest Rachel Hartman discuss the recent ouster of Klaus Fiedler, the former Editor in Chief of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, over allegations of racism and abu...
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Episode 99: Is MTurk Too Good To Be True? from 2022-12-07T06:00
In a recent article, psychologists Webb and Tangney document their experience collecting psychology data online using Amazon's crowdsourcing platform MTurk. Alarmingly, the authors conclude that ul...
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Episode 98: Inspired Science (with Spencer Greenberg) from 2022-11-23T06:00
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Spencer Greenberg, founder of the behavioral science startup incubator Spark Wave and host of the Clearer Thinking podcast. He describes how he became fascinated with p...
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Episode 97: Getting Into Grad School from 2022-11-09T06:00
With grad school application deadlines around the corner, Alexa and Yoel discuss how, exactly, that process works. Big picture, they talk about their goals in selecting graduate students to work on...
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Episode 96: So, What Do You Do? from 2022-10-26T06:00
Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent paper, written by Hughes, Srivastava, Leszko, and Condon, that created and validated a new index of "occupational prestige." The index is intended to provide a tool ...
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Episode 95: What are Teachers Good For? (with Paul Bloom) from 2022-09-28T06:00
Paul Bloom joins Yoel and Alexa to talk about the glamour and humiliation of teaching psychology at the college level. They discuss how they've changed their approaches to teaching over the years, ...
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Episode 94: Individualism, Interdependence, and Student Loans from 2022-09-14T06:00
Inspired by a recent Atlantic article ("The Myth of Independent American Families" by Stephanie H. Murray) Alexa and Yoel consider what it means to live in an indiviualistic society. At an abstract...
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Episode 93: Facing a Social Media Mob (with Stefan Uddenberg) from 2022-08-24T06:00
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Stefan Uddenberg, a social perception researcher and author of the paper "Deep Models of Superficial Face Judgments." This paper was the focus of a previous episde - "A...
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Episode 92: Should SPSP Stay Out of It? from 2022-08-03T06:00
As the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) starts gearing up for their 2023 conference, Alexa and Yoel debate some of the organization's recent efforts to be more anti-racist and p...
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Episode 91: Decriminalizing Mental Illness from 2022-07-20T06:00
Yoel and Alexa chat with Jennifer Cox and Lauren Kois, co-directors of the Southern Behavioral Health and Law Initiative. Established in 2020, the initiative was created to address the dearth of me...
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Episode 90: Freelance Kinkology (with Aella) from 2022-07-06T06:00
Independent researcher Aella joins Yoel and Alexa to talk about her experiences doing freelance social science. Their discussion touches on some far-ranging topics, from the upsides of Twitter micr...
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Episode 89: What's Wrong with Social Media? from 2022-06-22T14:15
Mickey returns with the hot takes you know and love. He joins Yoel and Alexa to discuss Jonathan Haidt's recent Atlantic article, "Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid."...
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Episode 88: Many Many Labs from 2022-06-08T06:00
Earlier this year, the last of five "Many Labs" projects was accepted for publication at Collabra: Psychology, representating the culmination of a nearly-decade long series of multi-lab replication...
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Episode 87: The Distracting Nature of Nudges from 2022-05-18T06:00
Originating within the behavioral sciences, "nudging" has received attention as a way to achieve broad societal change by promoting small, individual adjustments. We're told, for instance, that if ...
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Episode 86: A Face For Podcasting from 2022-05-01T06:00
Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent study that examines the facial features that people perceive as "smart," "dorky," "trustworthy," or a number of other traits. The study quickly captured a lot of att...
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Episode 85: People Dealing With the Pandemic Pretty Well, Study Finds from 2022-04-20T06:00
Originally, Yoel and Alexa set out to discuss a study examining stress and decision-making during the pandemic. However, they get sidetracked by the ways that data are packaged - first by APA, and ...
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Episode 84: Check Your Values? from 2022-04-06T06:00
Alexa and Yoel fight some more, this time over whether or not science should be value free. They consider a position taken by W. E. B. Du Bois, who argued that social change was only possible if sc...
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Episode 83: Grand Challenges from 2022-03-23T06:00
Yoel and Alexa discuss the "grand challenges" of psychological science, as identified in a recent survey of APS members. While usually nauseatingly agreeable, the two find many points of contention...
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Episode 82: Psychology Worth Knowing from 2022-03-09T05:00
Yoel and Alexa embrace their credulous sides and consider concepts from psychology that have importance for people in their private and public lives. Each of us lists the three social psychological...
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Episode 81: Against Retribution from 2022-02-23T06:00
Alexa moonlights as a guest and answers Yoel's questions about her recent paper, in which she argues that the criminal justice system should abandon retribution. Alexa claims that when we ask if so...
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Episode 80: The C-Word (with Julia Rohrer) from 2022-02-09T06:00
Personality psychologist and methodologist Julia Rohrer joins the show to talk about causal claims, strategic ambiguity, and how tough it is to tell what empirical claims many psychology papers are...
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Episode 79: All About Authenticity from 2022-01-26T05:00
Alexa and Yoel talk authenticity. What is it? Is it good to have it? And why does Alexa score higher on it than Yoel? We talk about a draft paper examining how people infer authenticity in themselv...
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Episode 78: Meehl on Theory from 2022-01-12T05:00
Alexa and Yoel are back with more amateur philosophy of science. This time, we do a deep dive into a paper by the legendary Paul Meehl: "Appraising and Amending Theories: The Strategy of Lakatosian...
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Episode 77: Against Method? from 2021-12-08T06:00
Alexa and Yoel tackle Paul Feyerabend, the wild man of philosophy of science. What can we learn from his "anything goes" argument for methodological anarchy? We go deep on the first five chapters o...
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Episode 76: Preregistration (What is it Good For) from 2021-11-17T05:00
Alexa and Yoel talk about objections to preregistration. Does preregistration imply that researchers can't be trusted? Does it mean that they can't use their best judgment? When might preregistrati...
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Episode 75: Beyond Experiments from 2021-11-03T10:00
Alexa and Yoel talk about a paper purporting to show that winning the Nobel Prize increases your lifespan. In the process, they dip their toes into non-experimental causal inference and discuss whe...
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Episode 74: Pleasurable Suffering (with Paul Bloom) from 2021-10-13T05:00
Paul Bloom joins us to talk about why we want to suffer. Sometimes it's a means to an end, but sometimes we desire it for its own sake. Among other things, we talk about mountain-climbing, whether...
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Episode 73: We Need to Talk About Fraud (with Joe Simmons) from 2021-09-29T05:00
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Joe Simmons to talk about fraud. We go in-depth on a recent high-profile fraud case, but we also talk about scientific fraud more generally: how common is it, how do yo...
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Episode 72: The Climate Survey (with Danielle McDuffie) from 2021-09-15T00:00
Danielle McDuffie is a graduate student in psychology at the University of Alabama. This is the story of how she ran a graduate student climate survey, the explosive results, and the very contentio...
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Episode 71: The Good Life from 2021-09-01T05:00
Alexa and Yoel discuss a new paper (Oishi&Westgate, 2021) arguing that psychological richness is an overlooked aspect of the good life. In the process, they compare psychologically-rich-life scor...
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Episode 70: Older from 2021-08-11T06:00
Alexa and Yoel tackle the most dreaded subject: getting older. Have they become better researchers and people over the years? Are they happier and more connected? Or are they just more forgetful an...
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Episode 69: How to Self-Care from 2021-07-21T05:00
Alexa and Yoel go deep on self-care. What is it, how do you do it, and why does the term raise Yoel's hackles? How hard do we actually work, and should we be trying to work less? Also, Alexa share...
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Episode 68: How (Not) to be a Hater from 2021-07-07T05:00
Alexa and Yoel discuss "The Anticreativity Letters," a satirical article by Richard Nisbett that advises young psychology researchers to (among other things) avoid being overly critical. How does t...
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Episode 67: Getting Drunk (with Ted Slingerland) from 2021-06-23T05:00
Mickey and Yoel welcome repeat guest Ted Slingerland to talk about his new book "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization," in which he makes the case for alcohol. Also, w...
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Episode 66: How is Open Science Doing? from 2021-06-09T05:00
Yoel and Alexa discuss progress in open science over the past 10 years. Is the scientific reform glass half-full or half-empty? Where have we made progress, and what still needs work? We use two pa...
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Episode 65: Our Social Media Prisms from 2021-05-26T06:00
Mickey, Alexa, and Yoel break down "Breaking the Social Media Prism," a new book arguing that social media reinforces our pre-existing political beliefs and polarizes us against the other side. Plu...
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Episode 64: Quick Fixes (with Jesse Singal) from 2021-04-28T06:00
Journalist and podcaster Jesse Singal joins the show to talk about the enduring popularity of social-psychological quick fixes and how they go wrong. Plus: what is wrong with how the media covers s...
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Episode 63: Legalize It (with Carl Hart) from 2021-03-24T05:00
Neuroscientist and addiction researcher Carl Hart joins the show to talk drug legalization. Why does he think all drugs should be legal? What are some common myths about drug use and addiction? And...
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Episode 62: Actually Against Academia (with Lee Jussim) from 2021-02-24T08:00
Lee Jussim joins the show to argue that we have been too soft on academia. We discuss problems in psychology and the social sciences including ideological bias, politically-motivated retractions, a...
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Episode 61: Bullshit, Misinformation, and What to Do About It (with Gord Pennycook) from 2021-01-27T06:00
Psychologist Gordon Pennycook joins the show to talk bullshit and misinformation. What is bullshit, and why do some people fall for it more than others? Why does misinformation spread so readily, a...
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Episode 60: 2020 Silver Linings from 2020-12-30T06:00
Mickey and Yoel follow up on two recent episodes ("Against Academia?" and "Racism and Sexism on Campus"). Then they review some of the less-bad aspects of 2020 and recommend some things that got th...
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Episode 59: Talking about Talking (with Katie Kinzler) from 2020-12-16T05:00
Psychologist Katie Kinzler joins the show to talk language. How do children and adults make judgments about people based on how they talk? Is there a "bilingual advantage"? And does Mickey sound Ca...
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Episode 58: Sexism and Racism on Campus (with Anne Wilson) from 2020-12-02T05:00
Repeat guest Anne Wilson joins the show to talk about two recent papers about bias in psychology and on campus. Is gender and racial bias pervasive? Or are things better than many of us might think...
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Episode 57: Against Academia? from 2020-11-11T05:00
Mickey and Yoel tackle the pros and cons of academia. As an academic, is it taboo to say you love your job? How hard do we work anyway? If we ran the world, how would we change academic hiring? Al...
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Episode 56: The Kindness of Strangers (with Michael McCullough) from 2020-10-21T05:00
Psychologist Michael McCullough joins the show to talk forgiveness, punishment, and how we came to care about the welfare of people we don't know. Also: a listener calls out our dubious math. Speci...
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Episode 55: All In (with Maria Konnikova) from 2020-10-07T06:00
Psychologist and author Maria Konnikova joins the show to talk poker, life, and what one teaches you about the other. She talks with us about working with Walter Mischel as a graduate student, her ...
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Episode 54: Being WEIRD (with Joe Henrich) from 2020-09-23T05:00
Yoel and Mickey interview one of the most influential social scientists of our generation, Harvard University's Joe Henrich. Why are people from the West so peculiar, so different from other people...
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Episode 53: The COVID debate (with Robb Willer and Simine Vazire) from 2020-09-09T06:00
Robb Willer and Simine Vazire join the podcast to debate whether social science, in its current form, can usefully contribute to our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Is psychology ready to give t...
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Episode 52: Cold Takes (with Neil Lewis, Jr.) from 2020-08-26T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Neil Lewis, Jr. of Cornell University to the podcast. Is psychology ready to be applied to help the response to the COVID-19 pandemic? What are the opportunity costs of appl...
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Episode 51: Against Orthodoxy from 2020-08-12T08:00
After over a year of (mostly) avoiding controversial topics, Yoel and Mickey dive in to talk about orthodoxy, dissent, and "cancel culture." Does the narrowing of acceptable views make us dumber or...
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Episode 50: The Upside of Feeling Bad (with Claudia Haase) from 2020-07-29T05:00
For their 50th episode, Yoel and Mickey welcome Northwestern University psychologist Claudia Haase to the podcast to discuss relationships and mistakes. What was life like in East Germany before th...
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Episode 49: Why Buddhism is Wrong (with Evan Thompson) from 2020-07-15T05:00
Yoel and Mickey have a far ranging conversation with University of British Columbia professor of philosophy, Evan Thompson. Despite growing up with a daily meditation practice and contributing to t...
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Episode 48: Clocks and Garbage Cans (with Rachel Ruttan) from 2020-07-01T05:00
Yoel and Mickey host Rachel Ruttan, who is an assisant professor of organizational behavior and human resources at the Rotman School of Management. What is organizational behavior and how is it dif...
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Episode 47: Talking about Racism (with Keith Maddox) from 2020-06-17T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome back returning guest Keith Maddox from Tufts University to talk about his research on racism. What is shadeism? Can anything be done to make it easier to talk about race and...
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Episode 46: Very Good Men (with Very Bad Wizards) from 2020-06-03T05:00
Yoel and Mickey try to settle their feud with the boys from Very Bad Wizards, Tamler Sommers and David Pizarro. They discuss what psychology, philosophy, and art can and can't do. Does psychology g...
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Episode 45: Being Human (with Scott Barry Kaufman) from 2020-05-13T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome humanistic psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman to the show. Scott talks about his academic path from intelligence researcher to positive psychologist. What is humanistic psycho...
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Episode 44: Psychology in the Time of COVID-19 from 2020-04-29T05:00
Yoel and Mickey spend the first half of the episode discussing how thier lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. How has the pademic affected those with and without children? How has the...
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Episode 43: Penumbral Fuzz (with Nina Strohminger) from 2020-04-15T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Nina Strohminger, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies&Business Ethics at the Wharton School of Business, to the show. Nina delivers entertaining takes on digust and moralit...
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Episode 42: The Plague (with Joshua Tybur) from 2020-04-01T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome evolutionary psychologist Joshua Tybur to the podcast to discuss COVID-19 and the function of disgust as part of the behavioral immune system. What is the relationship betwe...
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Episode 41: With and Without Children (with Elizabeth Page-Gould) from 2020-03-18T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome return guest Elizabeth Page-Gould to the podcast to discuss adults with and without children. Why did Liz choose to have children? What do we make of fathers who leave their...
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Episode 40: Diversity, Death, and (Cohen's) D from 2020-03-04T05:00
As Little Urban Achievers, Yoel and Mickey delight in discussing previews for The Jesus Rolls, a Big Lebowski spinoff starring John Torturo as Jesus Quintana. They next talk about the University of...
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Episode 39: Hot Takes (with Robb Willer) from 2020-02-19T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Stanford sociologist and psychologist Robb Willer to the show, who serves up hot takes about the replication crisis. Did the low replicabilty era in social psychology have c...
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Episode 38: Is There a Generalizability Crisis? from 2020-01-22T05:00
Yoel and Mickey discuss a new paper by Tal Yarkoni suggesting that quantitative research in psychology is suffering from a generaliozability crisis. Do the numbers and statistics that psychological...
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Episode 37: The War on Christmas Holiday Special from 2019-12-25T05:00
Yoel and Mickey declare war on Christmas, discuss US-Canada differences, and almost entirely avoid serious topics. Bonus semi-serious topic: are all theories in psychology bound to be true?
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Episode 36: Psychological Science Meets the Real World (with Nick Hobson) from 2019-12-11T06:00
Mickey and Yoel chat with Nick Hobson, a psychologist who has moved from academia to applying behavioral science in the real world. What are some of the challenges that face academics-turned-practi...
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Episode 35: Against Experiments from 2019-11-27T05:00
Are many classic social psychology experiments more theater than science? Mickey and Yoel discuss "The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology," a book by the sociologist Augustine Brannigan that makes ...
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Episode 34: The Future of Social Psychology from 2019-11-13T05:00
Mickey and Yoel take advantage of the SESP (Society for Experimental Social Psychology) conference to ask guests some hard-hitting questions about the present and future of social psychology (and, ...
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Episode 33: What is Heterodox Academy? (with Debra Mashek) from 2019-10-30T05:00
Mickey and Yoel talk with Debra Mashek, the executive director of Heterodox Academy, an organization working to increase open inquiry, viewpoint diversity and constructive disagreement in academia....
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Episode 32: Measurement Schmeasurement (with Jessica Flake) from 2019-10-16T05:00
Jessica Flake joins Mickey and Yoel to talk measurement. What is it, how do you do it well, and do social psychologists care about it? What does measurement theory tell us about the validity of sta...
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Episode 31: Is Ego Depletion Real? from 2019-10-02T05:00
By listener request, Yoel quizzes Mickey about ego depletion. How did we start studying it? How has the replication crisis changed how we think about it? After more than a decade studying ego deple...
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Episode 30: Evaluating Eminence from 2019-09-18T05:00
Yoel and Mickey discuss the role of eminence in science. Is there a role for eminence in psychology? What makes a researcher eminent? Would we be better off disregarding eminence entirely? Your ho...
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Episode 29: Sacred Values from 2019-09-04T05:00
Yoel and Mickey discuss sacred values. How are sacred valued different from other values? What are the hallmarks of values that have become sacrilized? Why does it seem crass, or even offensive, to...
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Episode 28: Better Advice (with Alexa Tullett) from 2019-08-21T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Associate Professor of Psychology, Alexa Tullett from the University of Alabama to the podcast. Co-host of The Black Goat podcast and board member of the Society for the Imp...
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Episode 27: Against Mindfulness from 2019-08-07T05:00
Playing devil's advocate, Yoel and Mickey mount a criticism against the scientific study of mindfulness. What is mindfulness? Can we measure it? Is mindfulness-based therapy effective? Can mindfuln...
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Episode 26: Terrible Advice (with Paul Bloom) from 2019-07-24T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Paul Bloom to the podcast, who is not only a returning guest but also the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology at Yale University. We first give terrible advice ...
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Episode 25: Truth and Political Bias in Psychology (with John Jost) from 2019-07-03T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Professor of Psychology and Politics John Jost from New York University to the podcast. Author of the most influential political psychology paper of the last two decades, Jo...
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Episode 24: Heuristics and Biases in the Democratic Primary from 2019-06-19T05:00
Yoel and Mickey take a deep dive into the Democratic Primary field, asking what the field of judgment and decision making can teach us about the large and diverse field of Democratic candidates. Wh...
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Episode 23: Slow-Form Journalism (with Daniel Engber) from 2019-06-05T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Slate columnist Daniel Engber to the podcast. Dan talks about the state of science journalism, including what he sees as more skeptical, less credulous reporting. He also ta...
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Episode 22: Blend of Darkness (with Brent Roberts) from 2019-05-22T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Professor of Psychology Brent Roberts from the University of Illinois to the podcast. One of the most influential personality psychologists of our day, Brent unleashes his t...
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Episode 21: Perils of Privilege from 2019-04-24T05:00
Yoel and Mickey discuss the concept of privilege, the unearned, sometimes invisible conditions of a person’s life that give them advantages that others might not have. What are the benefits of ackn...
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Episode 20: Apostasy and Dissent (with Sarah Haider) from 2019-03-27T05:00
Yoel and Mickey talk with Sarah Haider, the co-founder and Executive Director of Ex-Muslims of North America, an organization that advocates for the acceptance of religious dissent and supports tho...
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Episode 19: Two Normies Four Beers from 2019-02-27T05:00
Yoel and Mickey discuss Kill All Normies, a book written by Angela Nagle about the online culture wars, the rise of transgressive politics, and the disappearance of moderates. But, first they discu...
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A Schedule Update (Shomer F*cking Sabbatical) from 2019-02-06T05:00
We are going to be on a one-episode-a-month schedule till May. Why? Because Mickey is on sabbatical from his cough incredibly demanding job: ✈️🌴🏖🍹😎
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Episode 18: What Science and the Humanities Offer Each Other (with Edward Slingerland) from 2019-01-30T05:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies, Edward (Ted) Slingerland from the University of British Columbia to the podcast. Ted discusses what the sciences can offer the huma...
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Episode 17: Why Trump Won from 2019-01-02T06:00
Yoel and Mickey discuss Identity Crisis, a new book about the 2016 US presidential election written by the political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck. But first, they talk ab...
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Episode 16: How Polarized Are We? (with Anne Wilson) from 2018-12-19T06:00
Yoel and Mickey sit down with Anne Wilson of Wilfrid Laurier University to discuss free speech, the Lindsay Shepherd case, political polarization, #MeToo, and more. Bonus: how many tattoos does Mic...
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Episode 15: Just When You Think You're Out from 2018-12-05T06:00
Yoel and Mickey discuss two mini-controversies recently in the news: 1) Should equity, diversity, and inclusion statements be required from academic job candidates? Do they signal the liberal value...
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Episode 14: Vices (with Elizabeth Page-Gould) from 2018-11-21T06:00
Yoel and Mickey have their first repeat guest as Liz Page-Gould joins them to talk vices. Weed, booze and porn are all on the table (well, not literally) as we take on some popular vices. Why do yo...
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Episode 13: What's Wrong with the IAT? (with Jesse Singal) from 2018-11-07T06:00
Journalist Jesse Singal joins Yoel and Mickey to talk about the state of science journalism, what he thinks is wrong with how people interpret the Implicit Association Test (IAT), and the pros and ...
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Episode 12: Everybody Hates Social Media from 2018-10-24T06:00
Mickey and Yoel take on social media. What are the upsides and downsides of being on social media, particularly Twitter? Why does Mickey ban himself from social media for most of the day? What led ...
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Episode 11: No Such Thing as Bad Publicity? from 2018-10-10T06:00
Yoel and Mickey discuss how scientists should publicize their work. Should scientists issue press releases about their findings? Should they write op-ed columns to communicate directly with the pub...
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Episode 10: Conservative Social Psychologist Wanted (with Clay Routledge) from 2018-09-26T03:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Clay Routledge to the show. Clay is a professor of psychology at North Dakota State University who studies the cognitive and motivational consequences of the search for mean...
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Episode 9: Giving the Finger (with Alice Dreger) from 2018-09-12T06:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome author, journalist, historian, and bioethicist Alice Dreger to the show. Alice, who wrote Galileo’s Middle Finger, discusses how her upbringing, her academic background, and...
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Episode 8: Confessions of a Science Critic (with James Heathers) from 2018-08-29T06:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Northeastern University research scientist and science critic James Heathers to their show. Yoel, Mickey, and James discuss science reform and the need for robust science cr...
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Episode 7: When Does the Left Go Too Far? from 2018-08-15T06:00
Yoel and Mickey ask how to know when the political Left has gone too far. Assuming the Left can indeed go too far--turning off even other progressives who feel abandoned by their natural political ...
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Episode 6: Yoel and Mickey Fall in Love (with Elizabeth Page-Gould) from 2018-08-01T06:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome their University of Toronto colleague and close friend, psychologist Elizabeth Page-Gould. Liz, who is an expert in close friendship, tries to help Yoel and Mickey fall in l...
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Episode 5: I Love How You Hurt Me (with Paul Bloom) from 2018-07-18T06:00
Yoel and Mickey welcome Yale psychologist Paul Bloom to the show, their very first guest. In a far ranging conversation, Yoel, Mickey, and Paul discuss the potential benefits of pain. Why do we som...
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Episode 4: The Replication Crisis Gets Personal from 2018-07-04T13:00
In their most emotional episode yet, Yoel and Mickey discuss the replication crisis in psychology. What is meant by the replication crisis and how did it get started? Why does it appear like the fi...
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Episode 3: WTF is the IDW? from 2018-06-20T13:00
Yoel and Mickey take a deep dive into the so-called Intellectual Dark Web (IDW). What is the IDW and who are the prominent members of this group? Why do members of the IDW seem so cranky? Are membe...
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Episode 2: You're Not Wrong Walter, You're Just an A$$hole from 2018-06-05T13:00
In this episode, Yoel and Mickey tackle problems of tone and incivility in online discussions of the scientific literature. What constitutes bullying and is the term abused to derail legitimate cri...
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Episode 1: In Search of the Campus Free Speech Crisis from 2018-05-19T14:00
In their first episode, Yoel and Mickey tackle the alleged free speech crisis on campus. Is there reason to worry or are reports of left-wing intolerance overblown? We take a closer look and talk a...
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