Displaying 3 items of Two Psychologists Four Beers with the tag "ego depletion".
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Episode 127: The Great Canadian Euthanasia Experiment (with Mickey Inzlicht)
February 9th, 2026 | 1 hr 17 mins
ego depletion, euthanasia, fatigue, maid
Mickey and Yoel talk about Canada's controversial euthanasia law (called MAID: medical assistance in dying). We also discuss a new paper that finds (or does it?) that ego depletion is not as dead as people think.
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Episode 31: Is Ego Depletion Real?
October 2nd, 2019 | 1 hr 18 mins
ego depletion, fatigue, replication
Yoel quizzes Mickey about ego depletion. How did we start studying it? How has the replication crisis changed how we think about it? After more than a decade studying ego depletion, does Mickey still have any faith in the phenomenon?
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Episode 4: The Replication Crisis Gets Personal
July 4th, 2018 | 1 hr 8 mins
beers, diedrik stapel, ego depletion, questionable research practices, replication crisis, stereotype threat
In their most emotional episode yet, Yoel and Mickey discuss the replication crisis in psychology. What is meant by the replication crisis and how did it get started? How have academics dealt with the possibility that their own work might not be robust and replicable?