Displaying 6 items of Two Psychologists Four Beers with the tag "academia".
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Episode 128: Why Do We Care About Faculty Diversity? (with Azim Shariff)
March 6th, 2026 | 1 hr 14 mins
academia, diversity, hiring
Many academics care about diversity in faculty hiring, but why? Azim Shariff joins the show to talk about a new paper where he outlines different rationales for diversity in hiring, and an as-yet unpublished study where he asked department chairs how much they actually value each of them.
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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 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 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 10: Conservative Social Psychologist Wanted (with Clay Routledge)
September 26th, 2018 | 1 hr 13 mins
academia, intellectual diversity, meaning, politics, psychology, religion
Yoel and Mickey welcome psychologist Clay Routledge to the show. Clay discusses what it's like to be a non-liberal in social psychology, his experiences growing up in Côte d’Ivoire and Missouri, and his book "Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World."