Displaying 5 items of Two Psychologists Four Beers with the tag "preregistration".
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Episode 117: Good News for the Chronics (with Mickey Inzlicht)
March 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 19 mins
ai, cannabis, empathy, preregistration, spsp
On-again off-again co-host Mickey Inzlicht joins the show to debrief about the recent SPSP conference, dissect a new paper purporting to show working memory deficits in heavy cannabis users, and evaluate some critiques of AI empathy.
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Episode 116: Can We Do Science Without Ideology? (with Moin Syed)
January 22nd, 2025 | 1 hr 27 mins
diversity, ideology, misinformation, open science, preregistration
Cultural psychologist and open science advocate Moin Syed joins the show to talk what he thinks people get wrong about ideology, diversity, and open science. We talk about what role, if any, researchers' ideology should play in their science, and what it means when people describe psychological research as "ideological." In the second half of the show, we talk about what people get wrong about preregistration, and why it seems some misconceptions just won't die.
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Episode 76: Preregistration (What is it Good For)
November 17th, 2021 | 1 hr 7 mins
cardi b, field experiments, methods, preregistration, researcher degrees of freedom
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 preregistration be unhelpful? We also discuss how preregistration would have helped in a recent paper testing Cardi B's maxim that "hoes don't get cold."
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Episode 66: How is Open Science Doing?
June 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 26 mins
open science, preregistration, publishing, scientific utopia
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? Also, the true story of how Ashley Madison got its name.
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Episode 40: Diversity, Death, and (Cohen's) D
March 4th, 2020 | 1 hr 14 mins
effect sizes, preregistration, terror management theory, the jesus rolls
In a grab bag episode, Yoel and Mickey talk movies, politics, replicator degrees of freedom, and effect sizes.