Episodes
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Episode 47: Talking about Racism (with Keith Maddox)
June 17th, 2020 | 1 hr 29 mins
confronting racism, implicit bias, racism, shadeism, structural inequalities
Yoel and Mickey welcome back returning guest Keith Maddox to talk about racism, shadeism, confronting prejudice, the perils of implicit bias training, and check-ins from White friends.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.