Displaying 3 items of Two Psychologists Four Beers with the tag "activism".
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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 9: Giving the Finger (with Alice Dreger)
September 12th, 2018 | 1 hr 50 secs
activism, galilean personality, intellectual dark web, newspapers, research ethics, social justice, truth
Yoel and Mickey welcome author, journalist, historian, and bioethicist Alice Dreger to the show. Alice discusses how her upbringing, her academic background, and her own Galilean personality led her to piss so many people off in the service of serving both truth and justice.
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Episode 7: When Does the Left Go Too Far?
August 15th, 2018 | 1 hr 14 mins
activism, german beer, identity politics, microaggressions, negativity bias, politics, social justice, subjectivity, the left
Yoel and Mickey ask how to know when the political Left has gone too far. Assuming the Left can indeed go too far--turning off even other progressives who feel abandoned by their natural political home--Yoel and Mickey riff on ways this might manifest.