Displaying 4 items of Two Psychologists Four Beers with the tag "empathy".
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Episode 131: What's Wrong With AI (with Molly Crockett)
June 1st, 2026 | 1 hr 45 mins
ai, empathy, neuroscience
Cognitive scientist Molly Crockett joins the show to talk about what it's like to be known in the field as an "AI skeptic." We talk about where Molly is actually skeptical, but also what she thinks that label gets wrong.
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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.
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Episode 8: Confessions of a Science Critic (with James Heathers)
August 29th, 2018 | 1 hr 2 mins
data thug, empathy, goosebumps, meta-science, science criticism, science reform, zealotry
Yoel and Mickey welcome Northeastern University research scientist and science critic James Heathers to their show. Yoel, Mickey, and James discuss science reform and the need for robust science criticism.
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Episode 5: I Love How You Hurt Me (with Paul Bloom)
July 18th, 2018 | 1 hr 6 mins
beers, big 5, disagreeableness, empathy, fiction, monkey masturbation, pain, sex, very bad wizards
Yoel and Mickey welcome Yale psychologist Paul Bloom to the show, their very first guest. In a far ranging conversation, the trio discuss the potential benefits of pain. Why do we sometimes choose to suffer?