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 74 Episodes.
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Episode 25: Truth and Political Bias in Psychology (with John Jost)
July 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 26 mins
activism, conservatism, liberal bias, politics, trump
Yoel and Mickey welcome social and political psychologist John Jost from New York University to the podcast. In a conversation centered on politics, John talks about the psychological underpinning of conservativism and why he’s not worried about the lack of conservatives in academia.
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Episode 24: Heuristics and Biases in the Democratic Primary
June 19th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
Yoel and Mickey take a deep dive into the Democratic primary field, asking what the field of judgment and decision making can teach us about the large and diverse field of Democratic candidates.
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Episode 23: Slow-Form Journalism (with Daniel Engber)
June 5th, 2019 | 57 mins 2 secs
concussions, imposter syndrome, marathons, progress bar, replication crisis, science journalism, wind-chill factor
Journalist Daniel Engber joins Mickey and Yoel to talk about the evolving state of science journalism, including what he hopes are lasting improvements. He also talks about his own reporting on the replication crisis in psychology and concussions in sport.
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Episode 22: Blend of Darkness (with Brent Roberts)
May 22nd, 2019 | 1 hr 29 mins
5httlpr, coddling of the american mind, conscientiousness, personality, replication crisis, screen-time, self-control, senior scholars
Yoel and Mickey welcome personality psychologist Brent Roberts from the University of Illinois to the podcast. In a far-ranging conversation, Brent holds no punches sharing his thoughts about the state of psychology.
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Episode 21: Perils of Privilege
April 24th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
bank of mom and dad, bidets, call-out culture, dunning-kruger effect, free will, guilt and shame, oppression olympics, privilege
Yoel and Mickey discuss the pros and cons of the concept of privilege: the unearned, sometimes invisible conditions of a person’s life that give them advantages that others might not have.
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Episode 20: Apostasy and Dissent (with Sarah Haider)
March 27th, 2019 | 1 hr 1 min
anti-muslim prejudice, apostasy, atheism, dissent, ex-muslims, islamophobia, twitter
Yoel and Mickey talk with Sarah Haider, the co-founder and Executive Director of Ex-Muslims of North America, an organization that advocates for the acceptance of religious dissent and supports those who leave Islam.
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Episode 19: Two Normies Four Beers
February 27th, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
4chan, kill all normies, political polarization, quilette, tumblr, viral outrage
Yoel and Mickey discuss Kill All Normies, a book about the online culture wars and the rise of political polarization. Plus, what was it like attending the Quillette Social in Toronto?
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A Schedule Update (Shomer F*cking Sabbatical)
February 6th, 2019 | 3 mins 46 secs
#fullprofessor, housekeeping, schedule, update
We are going to be on a one-episode-a-month schedule till May.
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Episode 18: What Science and the Humanities Offer Each Other (with Edward Slingerland)
January 30th, 2019 | 1 hr 18 mins
effort, evidence, humanities, intoxication, language, post-modernism, science, spontaneity, wu-wei
Yoel and Mickey welcome Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies, Edward (Ted) Slingerland from the University of British Columbia to the podcast. Ted discusses what the sciences can offer the humanities, but also how the humanities can enrich science.
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Episode 17: Why Trump Won
January 2nd, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
election, patreon, politics, trump
Yoel and Mickey discuss Identity Crisis, a new book about the 2016 US presidential election. Plus: Patreon bans provocative internet personality; should free-speech advocates worry?
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Episode 16: How Polarized Are We? (with Anne Wilson)
December 19th, 2018 | 1 hr 9 mins
free speech, metoo, polarization, tattoos
Yoel and Mickey sit down with Anne Wilson of Wilfrid Laurier University to discuss free speech, the Lindsay Shepherd case, political polarization, #MeToo, and more.
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Episode 15: Just When You Think You're Out
December 5th, 2018 | 1 hr 5 mins
Yoel and Mickey discuss two mini-controversies recently in the news: 1) Should equity, diversity, and inclusion statements be required from academic job candidates? 2) Are psychologists disproportionately likely to argue that free speech is in crisis on campus? If so, why?