Michael Inzlicht
Co-Host of Two Psychologists Four Beers
Michael Inzlicht is a social psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Toronto. His interests include self-control, religion, and wasting time on social media. He occasionally quotes from The Big Lebowski.
Michael Inzlicht has hosted 72 Episodes.
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Episode 59: Talking about Talking (with Katie Kinzler)
December 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 10 mins
accent, bilingualism, language
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 Canadian?
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Episode 58: Sexism and Racism on Campus (with Anne Wilson)
December 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 41 mins
bias, campus climate, psychology, racism, sexism
Repeat guest Anne Wilson joins the show to talk about two recent papers about bias in psychology and on campus. Are gender and racial bias pervasive? Or are things better than many of us might think?
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Episode 57: Against Academia?
November 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 19 mins
academia, graduate school, hiring, research
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?
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Episode 56: The Kindness of Strangers (with Michael McCullough)
October 21st, 2020 | 1 hr 39 mins
altruism, forgiveness, restorative justice, revenge
Psychologist Michael McCullough joins the show to talk forgiveness, punishment, and altruism towards strangers.
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Episode 55: All In (with Maria Konnikova)
October 7th, 2020 | 1 hr 7 mins
bourbon, chance, decision-making, poker
Psychologist and author Maria Konnikova joins the show to talk poker, life, and what one teaches you about the other.
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Episode 54: Being WEIRD (with Joe Henrich)
September 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 28 mins
anthropology, culture, economics, evolution, religion, theory crisis, weird people problem
Yoel and Mickey host Harvard University polymath Joe Henrich on the podcast to talk about his new book on why the west has become so prosperous, the secret of human's success, and the cognitive science of religion.
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Episode 53: The COVID debate (with Robb Willer and Simine Vazire)
September 9th, 2020 | 1 hr 36 mins
covid, debate, intervention, policy
Robb Willer and Simine Vazire join the podcast to debate whether social science, in its current state, can usefully contribute to our response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Episode 52: Cold Takes (with Neil Lewis, Jr.)
August 26th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins
field research, interventions, open science, opportunity costs, stereotype threat, twitter
Yoel and Mickey welcome Neil Lewis, Jr. to the podcast to talk about interventions, field research, stereotype threat, and open science.
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Episode 51: Against Orthodoxy
August 12th, 2020 | 1 hr 14 mins
cancel culture, dissent, free speech, orthodoxy, power, self-censoring, twitter
Yoel and Mickey discuss the problems with orthodoxy and punishment of dissenting views in a fraught political climate.
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Episode 50: The Upside of Feeling Bad (with Claudia Haase)
July 29th, 2020 | 1 hr 23 mins
east germany, emotion regulation, errors, failure, open science, relationships, twitter
Yoel and Mickey celebrate their 50th episode by welcoming Claudia Haase to the podcast to discuss relationships, life in East Germany before the fall of the Wall, admitting to mistakes, and the upside of failure.
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Episode 49: Why Buddhism is Wrong (with Evan Thompson)
July 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 19 mins
buddhism, embodied cognition, mindfulness, phenomenology, religion, the self
Yoel and Mickey welcome philosopher Evan Thompson to the show to talk about Buddhism, the self. embodied cognition, phenomenology, evolutionary psychology, and growing up on a commune.
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Episode 48: Clocks and Garbage Cans (with Rachel Ruttan)
July 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 20 mins
figure skating, organizational behavior, radicalization, sacred values, theory
Yoel and Mickey welcome B-school professor Rachel Ruttan to the show to discuss life in a business school, differences between psychology and organizational behavior, and her research on sacred valued and radicalization.