Displaying 3 items of Two Psychologists Four Beers with the tag "ai".
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Episode 126: Using AI to Improve Science (with Paul Litvak)
January 10th, 2026 | 1 hr 14 mins
ai, dead goose, meta-science, p-curve, robin dawes
Paul Litvak joins the show to talk about how AI tools can help us measure research quality and assess evidence in the scientific literature. His first project is a way to extract test statistics and p-values from papers automatically, with no manual coding needed. We also talk about legendary researcher Robin Dawes (for whom Paul's non-profit is named) and Paul's exit from academia. Plus, Yoel reveals a shameful secret about his use of AI.
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Episode 120: Transparent Replications (with Spencer Greenberg)
June 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins
ai, importance hacking, p-hacking, replication, simplest valid analysis
Returning guest Spencer Greenberg joins the show to talk replications, what psychologist think of terror management theory (and other controversial topics), and a machine-learning tool he developed to predict correlations between psychological traits and survey questions.
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Episode 117: Good News for the Chronics (with Mickey Inzlicht)
March 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 19 mins
ai, cannabis, empathy, preregistration, spsp
On-again off-again co-host Mickey Inzlicht joins the show to debrief about the recent SPSP conference, dissect a new paper purporting to show working memory deficits in heavy cannabis users, and evaluate some critiques of AI empathy.