Yoel Inbar
Co-Host of Two Psychologists Four Beers
Yoel Inbar is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He studies how intuitions and emotions--particularly disgust--affect our social, political, and moral beliefs. In his spare time, he studies how beer/whiskey/wine affect his ability to make coherent arguments.
Yoel Inbar has hosted 118 Episodes.
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Episode 93: Facing a Social Media Mob (with Stefan Uddenberg)
August 24th, 2022 | 1 hr 14 mins
accent control, facial perception, in the air, physiognomy, twitter
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Stefan Uddenberg, who sheds new light on the past episode "A Face for Podcasting." Stefan, an author on the paper "Deep Models of Superficial Face Judgments," gives an insider's take on why the paper became controversial, how the response impacted him, and why he does the work that he does.
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Episode 92: Should SPSP Stay Out of It?
August 3rd, 2022 | 1 hr 13 mins
anti-racism, boycotts, conferences, liquid peanut butter, sentimental value, spsp
Alexa and Yoel discuss the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's (SPSP's) recent efforts to organize a more anti-racist and politically engaged conference. The co-hosts consider the debate around boycotting Georgia, as well as SPSP's new evaluation criteria that reward equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in submissions.
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Episode 91: Decriminalizing Mental Illness
July 20th, 2022 | 1 hr 21 mins
asparagus canning jars, deadlifting, law, making it, mental health
Alexa and Yoel are joined by Jennifer Cox and Lauren Kois, co-directors of the Southern Behavioral Health and Law Initiative. They discuss ways that those with mental illness face unique challenges within the legal system, and explain how their work pushes for a shift away from criminalization and towards more comprehensive mental health support.
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Episode 90: Freelance Kinkology (with Aella)
July 6th, 2022 | 1 hr 26 mins
freelance social science, kink, lsd, the outdoors, twitter
Alexa and Yoel chat with Twitter pollster and freelance social scientist Aella. Their conversation raises some deep and perplexing questions: What experiences predict interest in BDSM? How do you know if you're truly open to being wrong? And are there some questions that shouldn't be asked?
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Episode 89: What's Wrong with Social Media?
June 22nd, 2022 | 1 hr 23 mins
big potato, social media, structural stupidity, well-being
Mickey returns to join Alexa and Yoel in a discussion of the evils of social media (or lack thereof). The three cohosts dissect two articles - one by Haidt and another by Orben and Przybylski - in an effort to decide whether social media poses a serious threat to our well-being.
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Episode 88: Many Many Labs
June 8th, 2022 | 1 hr 14 mins
50 cent, expertise, many labs, replication, vermont
Alexa and Yoel discuss what they've learned from Many Labs 1 through 5. They consider how these multi-lab replication projects have demonstrated, time and time again, the value of replication to the scientific enterprise.
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Episode 87: The Distracting Nature of Nudges
May 18th, 2022 | 1 hr 11 mins
"Nudging" has received attention as a way to achieve broad societal change by promoting small, individual adjustments, like recycling, or counting our steps. Yoel and Alexa consider Chater and Loewenstein's claim that nudging fails by distracting us from more fruitful system-level change.
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Episode 86: A Face For Podcasting
May 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
deep fakes, electable babies, face perception, physiognomy, trust
Yoel and Alexa discuss a study that examines how people infer traits from facial features. They consider various criticisms of the work, and evaluate whether the benefits outweigh the risks.
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Episode 85: People Dealing With the Pandemic Pretty Well, Study Finds
April 20th, 2022 | 1 hr 7 mins
millenials, netflix, pandemic stress, pegging, satisficing vs. maximizing
Alexa and Yoel discuss an NPR article and APA report examining stress and decision-making during the pandemic. In the process, they consider how the original data is eventually shaped into a pop-psych-friendly narrative.
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Episode 84: Check Your Values?
April 6th, 2022 | 1 hr 8 mins
cheap cheese, democracy, light bud light with lime, peeping through holes, scientific values, w. e. b. du bois
Alexa and Yoel debate whether or not science should be value free. They consider whether such a scenario would be possible or desirable, and how well it describes contemporary social psychology
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Episode 83: Grand Challenges
March 23rd, 2022 | 1 hr 15 mins
activist scientists, decolonization, grand challenges, taxes
Yoel and Alexa respond to an APS survey identifying the "grand challenges" of psychological science. They consider whether they agree with the list - which includes diversity, theory building, and science communication - and how likely psychology is to make progress.
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Episode 82: Psychology Worth Knowing
March 9th, 2022 | 1 hr 15 mins
hazy india pale lagers, investing, motivated reasoning, naive realism
We each list the top three social psychological effects that have the most potential to improve people's daily lives. And, we consider why they might not be having the impact they could.