Episodes
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Episode 113: The Road to Cincinnati (with Adam Mastroianni)
October 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
alt-ac, cincinnati chili, science houses, science reform
Researcher and writer Adam Mastroianni joins the podcast to talk about why he left academia, what conventional scientific research might be missing, and how he ended up writing a succesful science blog instead of more journal articles.
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Episode 112: All About ADHD (with Amori Mikami)
September 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 49 secs
adhd, mental health, social media
ADHD expert Amori Mikami joins the show to talk attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). What is it, how has our understanding of it changed over the years, and how accurate is the public discourse about it?
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Episode 111: We Are So Back
July 31st, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
expertise, pabst blue ribbon, prediction
Mickey joins Yoel for the first new episode in nearly a year. We talk what's been up with the show, plans for the future, and what it feels like to briefly be (almost) internet-famous. Oh, and we also talk about some research.
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Episode 110: RE-RELEASE: Destigmatizing Mental Health (with Andrew Devendorf)
October 4th, 2023 | 1 hr 21 mins
mental illness, personal statements, self-relevant research, space dust
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Andrew Devendorf, who shares his work on the stigmatization of "me-search" (or self-relevant research) within the field of clinical psychology. They discuss ways that this stigma impacts clinical graduate students, and consider the strengths of doing research that is rooted in personal experience.
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Episode 109: RE-RELEASE: Against Mindfulness
September 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 23 mins
attention, meditation, mindfulness, motivation, placebo, tango dancing, the self
Yoel and Mickey push back against the hype to mount an argument against mindfulness meditation.
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Episode 108: RE-RELEASE: We Need to Talk About Fraud
September 20th, 2023 | 1 hr 23 mins
data police, dishonesty, fraud, open data
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Joe Simmons to talk about fraud in behavioral science. How common is it, how do you detect it, and what can we do to prevent it?
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Episode 107: Against Anti-DEI Rhetoric
August 30th, 2023 | 1 hr 7 mins
anniversary, dei, the elephant in the room, ucla, viewpoint diversity
Alexa is joined by Jennifer Gutsell to discuss the controversy surrounding Yoel's visit to UCLA. They critique the use of anti-DEI rhetoric in these conversations, and ask if psychology is in denial about the progress we've made.
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Episode 106: We Need to Talk About Fraud Again
June 23rd, 2023 | 1 hr 8 mins
calcchain, cheating research, fraud, harvard, spreadsheets, vigilantes
Yoel and Alexa discuss the first of a series of four Data Colada blog posts documenting evidence of fraud in studies conducted by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. They consider the implications for co-authors, those who did the investigative work, and the field as a whole.
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Episode 105: Patchwork Politics
May 17th, 2023 | 58 mins 42 secs
alliances, politics, propaganda, rich movie stars, rooibos
Alexa and Yoel discuss a recent article that rejects the idea that political beliefs stem from people’s core values. Instead, the authors argue that these beliefs arise primarily from attempts to forge and maintain affiliations.
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Episode 104: Quantifying the Narrative of Replicable Science
March 29th, 2023 | 1 hr 9 mins
$50, 000 conversations, artificial intelligence, experiments, nfts, replicability
Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent paper that aims to estimate the replicability of psychology as a discipline by analyzing the words used to describe studies. After a deep dive into the nuts and bolts of the methodology they discuss the factors that make for the most (and least) replicable science.
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Episode 103: Psych (with Paul Bloom)
March 8th, 2023 | 1 hr 9 mins
hucksters, penis hat, pop psychology, psych 101, writing tips
Paul Bloom joins Alexa and Yoel to talk about his new book. Their conversation touches on teaching, writing, the chutzpah required to think one can take on the task of summarizing a field, and the meaning of penis-shaped dream hats.
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Episode 102: Destigmatizing Mental Health (with Andrew Devendorf)
February 8th, 2023 | 1 hr 19 mins
mental illness, personal statements, self-relevant research, space dust
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Andrew Devendorf, who shares his work on the stigmatization of "me-search" (or self-relevant research) within the field of clinical psychology. They discuss ways that this stigma impacts clinical graduate students, and consider the strengths of doing research that is rooted in personal experience.