Two Psychologists Four Beers

Episode 46: Very Good Men (with Very Bad Wizards)

June 3rd, 2020  |  1 hr 37 mins

art, intellectual dark web, measurement, philosophy, psychology

Yoel and Mickey grudgingly host their rivals from Very Bad Wizards, Tamler Sommers and David Pizarro, to talk shit about psychology, philosophy, and the Intellectual Dark Web.

Episode 45: Being Human (with Scott Barry Kaufman)

May 13th, 2020  |  1 hr 5 mins

hierarchy of needs, humanistic psychology, maslow, positive psychology, transcendence

Scott Barry Kaufman joins the show to talk about intelligence, humanistic psychology, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and transcendence.

Episode 44: Psychology in the Time of COVID-19

April 29th, 2020  |  1 hr 8 mins

covid-19, pandemic, parenting, productivity, public policy

Yoel and Mickey discuss how their lives have have been impacted by the global pandemic and then ask what role psychology should play, if any, in informing the public discussion about COVID-19.

Episode 43: Penumbral Fuzz (with Nina Strohminger)

April 15th, 2020  |  1 hr 11 mins

academia, book reviews, disgust, emotion, neurodegeneration, penis-gazing blowhards, true self

Nina Strohminger joins the show to talk about disgust, morality, the true self, death, academia, humor, and errant flatuses.

Episode 42: The Plague (with Joshua Tybur)

April 1st, 2020  |  1 hr 16 mins

controversy, covid-19, disgust, evolutionary psychology, measurement, pathogen avoidance, politics

Joshua Tybur joins the show to discuss COVID-19, pathogen avoidance, disgust, measurement, evolutionary psychology, and baldness.

Episode 41: With and Without Children (with Elizabeth Page-Gould)

March 18th, 2020  |  1 hr 10 mins

anti-natalism, childlessness, concept creep, fatherhood, motherhood

Elizabeth Page-Gould joins the podcast again to talk about motherhood, fatherhood, and people who choose to remain childless.

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.

Episode 39: Hot Takes (with Robb Willer)

February 19th, 2020  |  1 hr 23 mins

hot takes, motivated morality, psychedelics, replication crisis, sociology

Yoel and Mickey welcome Stanford sociologist and psychologist Robb Willer to the show, who serves up hot takes about the low replicability area in social psychology.

Episode 38: Is There a Generalizability Crisis?

January 22nd, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

Yoel and Mickey discuss a new paper by Tal Yarkoni suggesting that quantitative research in psychology is suffering from a generalizability crisis. Before that, they discuss Contrapoints's new video on cancel-culture.

Episode 37: The War on Christmas Holiday Special

December 25th, 2019  |  1 hr 4 mins

Mickey and Yoel declare war on Christmas, discuss US-Canada differences, and almost entirely avoid serious topics.

Episode 36: Psychological Science Meets the Real World (with Nick Hobson)

December 11th, 2019  |  1 hr 14 mins

behavioral economics, behavioral science, consulting, industry, microdosing

Mickey and Yoel chat with Nick Hobson, a psychologist who has moved from academia to applying behavioral science in the real world.

Episode 35: Against Experiments

November 27th, 2019  |  1 hr 8 mins

don cherry, experimentation, methods, social psychology

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.