Episodes
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Episode 62: Actually Against Academia (with Lee Jussim)
February 24th, 2021 | 1 hr 20 mins
academia, open science, politics, retractions
Lee Jussim joins the show to talk academic problems, including ideological bias, politically-motivated retractions, and more. Plus: is Lee bad at Twitter?
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Episode 61: Bullshit, Misinformation, and What to Do About It (with Gord Pennycook)
January 27th, 2021 | 1 hr 22 mins
academia, beekeeping, bullshit, misinformation
Psychologist Gordon Pennycook joins the show to talk bullshit and misinformation. What is bullshit, and why do some people fall for it more than others? Why does misinformation spread so readily, and what can be done to stop it?
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Episode 60: 2020 Silver Linings
December 30th, 2020 | 1 hr 18 mins
books, follow-up, tv, year in review
Mickey and Yoel follow up on two recent episodes ("Against Academia?" and "Racism and Sexism on Campus"). Then they review some of the less-bad aspects of 2020 and recommend some things that got them through a challenging year.
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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.