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Episode 44: Psychology in the Time of COVID-19 Apr 29, 2020

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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 pandemic impacted our various relationships? For the second half of the episode, they discuss what to make of the rush of psychology research on COVID-19. Given psychology's noted problems with replication, generalizability, and standards of evidence, should psychologists be trying to shape public policy? What actionable advice can psychology offer?

Bonus: Mickey finally says what he truly think of the Very Bad Wizards crew.

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Episode 43: Penumbral Fuzz (with Nina Strohminger) Apr 15, 2020

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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 morality, the true self, adventures in academia, and writing heroic book reviews. Do incidental emotions reliably impact decision making? What aspect of mind is at the core of one's identity? Which neurodegenerative diseases are the most difficult for caregivers to cope with? What does Nina really think about Colin McGinn's book, The Meaning of Disgust?

Bonus: What is worse: pop-psychology or pop-philosophy?

Special Guest: Nina Strohminger.

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Episode 42: The Plague (with Joshua Tybur) Apr 01, 2020

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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 between disgust sensitivity and political orientation? Can the theory of evolutionary act as a meta-theory for the study of human psychology? Why is evolutionary psychology so controversial and polarizing?

Bonus: Would Mickey inflate a new unlubricated condom with his mouth?

Special Guest: Joshua Tybur.

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Episode 41: With and Without Children (with Elizabeth Page-Gould) Mar 18, 2020

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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 familiies? How does society view people without children? What is the logic behind anti-natalism?

Bonus: What is concept creep and is it necessarily a bad thing?

Special Guest: Elizabeth Page-Gould.

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Episode 40: Diversity, Death, and (Cohen's) D Mar 04, 2020

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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 California's policy of selecting faculty job candidates based primarily on their diversity and inclusion statements. They finally talk science: What happens when open science advocates veer from their pre-registration plans and fail to reject the null hypothesis? Should we care about effect sizes in psychology outside of applied research?

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Episode 39: Hot Takes (with Robb Willer) Feb 19, 2020

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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 consequences for political science or sociology? Has the open science movement benefited from motivated morality, only effecting change when change was easy? Despite intentions, will the open science movement make science even more elitist?

Bonus: Taking psychedelic drugs at music concerts is fun!

Special Guest: Robb Willer.

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Episode 38: Is There a Generalizability Crisis? Jan 22, 2020

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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 scientists present in their papers correspond to their verbal claims? What would psychological science look like if psychologists made fewer general statements? Should psychologists conduct more qualitative and descriptive research? Did Tal Yarkoni himself use a quantitative argument to prop up very old verbal claims about the problem of induction?

Bonus: Before discussing generalizability, Yoel and Mickey discuss Contrapoints and her new video on cancel-culture.

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Episode 37: The War on Christmas Holiday Special Dec 25, 2019

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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) Dec 11, 2019

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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-practitioners? How can you apply psychological research in a rigorous way while, at the same time, keeping the bosses happy? We talk to Nick to find out.

Plus: Yoel's eventful evening, and microdosing.

Special Guest: Nick Hobson.

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Episode 35: Against Experiments Nov 27, 2019

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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 this provocative claim. Given the complexity of social life, are laboratory experiments just the wrong way to measure most social phenomena?

Bonus: who is Don Cherry, and what is his beef with Yoel?

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