web02.fireside.fm Sun, 24 May 2026 18:30:56 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Two Psychologists Four Beers - Episodes Tagged with “Politics” https://www.fourbeers.com/tags/politics Wed, 17 May 2023 05:00:00 -0400 Two psychologists endeavor to drink four beers while discussing news and controversies in science, academia, and beyond. en-us episodic Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett Two psychologists endeavor to drink four beers while discussing news and controversies in science, academia, and beyond. yes psychology, beer, academia, science, controversy Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett fourbeerspod@gmail.com Episode 105: Patchwork Politics https://www.fourbeers.com/105 e753fc22-d902-414c-9102-eecaef9f6d51 Wed, 17 May 2023 05:00:00 -0400 Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 105 Patchwork Politics full Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett Alexa and Yoel discuss a recent article that rejects the idea that political beliefs stem from people’s core values. Instead, the authors argue that these beliefs arise primarily from attempts to forge and maintain affiliations. 58:42 yes <p>In heated political debates, people are often accused of being hypocrites, lacking consistent foundational values. Today, Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent paper by David Pinsof, David Sears, and Martie Haselton, that challenges the commonsense notion that political belief systems stem from our core values. Instead, the authors propose that people form alliances with others, and develop political beliefs that serve to maintain those alliances. The cohosts discuss how these alliances might form, the various biases used to defend them, and whether values are truly absent from the process. They also tackle the deeper question of whether the alliance model means that neither side is right or wrong. </p> politics, propaganda, rooibos, alliances, rich movie stars In heated political debates, people are often accused of being hypocrites, lacking consistent foundational values. Today, Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent paper by David Pinsof, David Sears, and Martie Haselton, that challenges the commonsense notion that political belief systems stem from our core values. Instead, the authors propose that people form alliances with others, and develop political beliefs that serve to maintain those alliances. The cohosts discuss how these alliances might form, the various biases used to defend them, and whether values are truly absent from the process. They also tackle the deeper question of whether the alliance model means that neither side is right or wrong.

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]]> In heated political debates, people are often accused of being hypocrites, lacking consistent foundational values. Today, Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent paper by David Pinsof, David Sears, and Martie Haselton, that challenges the commonsense notion that political belief systems stem from our core values. Instead, the authors propose that people form alliances with others, and develop political beliefs that serve to maintain those alliances. The cohosts discuss how these alliances might form, the various biases used to defend them, and whether values are truly absent from the process. They also tackle the deeper question of whether the alliance model means that neither side is right or wrong.

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]]> Episode 70: Older https://www.fourbeers.com/70 e3606748-fc13-4ad4-830b-7a56c04772a8 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:00:00 -0400 Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 70 Older full Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett Alexa and Yoel tackle the most dreaded subject: getting older. Have they become better researchers and people over the years? Are they happier and more connected? Or are they just more forgetful and less good at stats? 1:04:41 yes <p>Alexa and Yoel tackle the most dreaded subject: getting older. Have they become better researchers and people over the years? Are they happier and more connected? Or are they just more forgetful and less good at stats?</p> <p>Plus: some listener feedback about self-care raises conceptual questions about suffering. </p> aging, research methods, writing, politics, self-care Alexa and Yoel tackle the most dreaded subject: getting older. Have they become better researchers and people over the years? Are they happier and more connected? Or are they just more forgetful and less good at stats?

Plus: some listener feedback about self-care raises conceptual questions about suffering.

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Plus: some listener feedback about self-care raises conceptual questions about suffering.

]]> Episode 65: Our Social Media Prisms https://www.fourbeers.com/65 6ac475f4-a357-4742-a009-58ecb46f8fe8 Wed, 26 May 2021 06:00:00 -0400 Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 65 Our Social Media Prisms full Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett Mickey, Alexa, and Yoel break down "Breaking the Social Media Prism," a new book arguing that social media reinforces our pre-existing political beliefs and polarizes us against the other side. 1:28:13 yes <p>Mickey, Alexa, and Yoel break down "Breaking the Social Media Prism," a new book arguing that social media reinforces our pre-existing political beliefs and polarizes us against the other side.</p> <p>Plus, HUGE NEWS about who's hosting the show. Also, Yoel gets a French lesson. </p> politics, social media, polarization, French Mickey, Alexa, and Yoel break down "Breaking the Social Media Prism," a new book arguing that social media reinforces our pre-existing political beliefs and polarizes us against the other side.

Plus, HUGE NEWS about who's hosting the show. Also, Yoel gets a French lesson.

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Plus, HUGE NEWS about who's hosting the show. Also, Yoel gets a French lesson.

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]]> Episode 62: Actually Against Academia (with Lee Jussim) https://www.fourbeers.com/62 a6c68d7d-fcf6-45ff-acc1-7519bc93c1aa Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0500 Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 62 Actually Against Academia (with Lee Jussim) full Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett Lee Jussim joins the show to talk academic problems, including ideological bias, politically-motivated retractions, and more. Plus: is Lee bad at Twitter? 1:20:38 yes <p>Lee Jussim joins the show to argue that we have been too soft on academia. We discuss problems in psychology and the social sciences including ideological bias, politically-motivated retractions, and more. Have things gotten better or worse over the past 10 years?</p> <p>Plus: is Lee bad at Twitter? Special Guest: Lee Jussim.</p> academia, politics, retractions, open science Lee Jussim joins the show to argue that we have been too soft on academia. We discuss problems in psychology and the social sciences including ideological bias, politically-motivated retractions, and more. Have things gotten better or worse over the past 10 years?

Plus: is Lee bad at Twitter?

Special Guest: Lee Jussim.

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]]> Lee Jussim joins the show to argue that we have been too soft on academia. We discuss problems in psychology and the social sciences including ideological bias, politically-motivated retractions, and more. Have things gotten better or worse over the past 10 years?

Plus: is Lee bad at Twitter?

Special Guest: Lee Jussim.

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]]> Episode 42: The Plague (with Joshua Tybur) https://www.fourbeers.com/42 c2561abf-63c8-4e6f-bd0e-4307a9998f2d Wed, 01 Apr 2020 05:00:00 -0400 Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 42 The Plague (with Joshua Tybur) full Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett Joshua Tybur joins the show to discuss COVID-19, pathogen avoidance, disgust, measurement, evolutionary psychology, and baldness. 1:16:55 yes <p>Yoel and Mickey welcome evolutionary psychologist Joshua Tybur to the podcast to discuss COVID-19 and the function of disgust as part of the behavioral immune system. What is the relationship between disgust sensitivity and political orientation? Can the theory of evolutionary act as a meta-theory for the study of human psychology? Why is evolutionary psychology so controversial and polarizing?</p> <p>Bonus: Would Mickey inflate a new unlubricated condom with his mouth? Special Guest: Joshua Tybur.</p> COVID-19, pathogen avoidance, disgust, measurement, evolutionary psychology, politics, controversy Yoel and Mickey welcome evolutionary psychologist Joshua Tybur to the podcast to discuss COVID-19 and the function of disgust as part of the behavioral immune system. What is the relationship between disgust sensitivity and political orientation? Can the theory of evolutionary act as a meta-theory for the study of human psychology? Why is evolutionary psychology so controversial and polarizing?

Bonus: Would Mickey inflate a new unlubricated condom with his mouth?

Special Guest: Joshua Tybur.

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Bonus: Would Mickey inflate a new unlubricated condom with his mouth?

Special Guest: Joshua Tybur.

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]]> Episode 25: Truth and Political Bias in Psychology (with John Jost) https://www.fourbeers.com/25 73896bb8-2f0c-4f60-a78c-54ac04af0113 Wed, 03 Jul 2019 05:00:00 -0400 Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 25 Truth and Political Bias in Psychology (with John Jost) full Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 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. 1:26:13 yes <p>Yoel and Mickey welcome Professor of Psychology and Politics John Jost from New York University to the podcast. Author of the most influential political psychology paper of the last two decades, John talks about the role of psychology in politics and the role of politics in psychology. Is it fair to characterize conservatives as dogmatic, rigid, and close-minded? Given replication failures, are conservatives indeed more attuned to negative stimuli in their environments? Does the description of conservatives as resistant to change applicable in the Trump era? Should social scientists be advocates/activists, neutral fact-finders, or something in between? Why is the dominance of liberals in social psychology (and academia more broadly) not a problem? </p> <p>Bonus: What is with all the homo-eroticism? Special Guest: John Jost.</p> politics, liberal bias, conservatism, Trump, activism Yoel and Mickey welcome Professor of Psychology and Politics John Jost from New York University to the podcast. Author of the most influential political psychology paper of the last two decades, John talks about the role of psychology in politics and the role of politics in psychology. Is it fair to characterize conservatives as dogmatic, rigid, and close-minded? Given replication failures, are conservatives indeed more attuned to negative stimuli in their environments? Does the description of conservatives as resistant to change applicable in the Trump era? Should social scientists be advocates/activists, neutral fact-finders, or something in between? Why is the dominance of liberals in social psychology (and academia more broadly) not a problem?

Bonus: What is with all the homo-eroticism?

Special Guest: John Jost.

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Bonus: What is with all the homo-eroticism?

Special Guest: John Jost.

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]]> Episode 17: Why Trump Won https://www.fourbeers.com/17 72edcc3d-0aac-4eab-bde9-d5da09a16fb6 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:00:00 -0500 Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 17 Why Trump Won full Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett Yoel and Mickey discuss Identity Crisis, a new book about the 2016 US presidential election. Plus: Patreon bans provocative internet personality; should free-speech advocates worry? 1:05:04 yes <p>Yoel and Mickey discuss Identity Crisis, a new book about the 2016 US presidential election written by the political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck. But first, they talk about the recent controversy over Patreon's ban of a provocative internet personality and what, if any, implications this has for free speech. </p> <p>Bonus: who is Mickey's favorite Sex and the City character? </p> election, politics, Trump, Patreon Yoel and Mickey discuss Identity Crisis, a new book about the 2016 US presidential election written by the political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck. But first, they talk about the recent controversy over Patreon's ban of a provocative internet personality and what, if any, implications this has for free speech.

Bonus: who is Mickey's favorite Sex and the City character?

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]]> Yoel and Mickey discuss Identity Crisis, a new book about the 2016 US presidential election written by the political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck. But first, they talk about the recent controversy over Patreon's ban of a provocative internet personality and what, if any, implications this has for free speech.

Bonus: who is Mickey's favorite Sex and the City character?

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]]> Episode 10: Conservative Social Psychologist Wanted (with Clay Routledge) https://www.fourbeers.com/10 bcd6abbb-d748-40df-ab14-27b4b5e6ee7c Wed, 26 Sep 2018 03:00:00 -0400 Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 10 Conservative Social Psychologist Wanted (with Clay Routledge) full Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 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." 1:13:43 yes <p>Yoel and Mickey welcome Clay Routledge to the show. Clay is a professor of psychology at North Dakota State University who studies the cognitive and motivational consequences of the search for meaning, including religion and other supernatural beliefs. Clay talks about his childhood growing up as the child of missionaries in Africa and the U.S., what it's like to be outside the liberal mainstream in psychology, and how religion and belief in alien visitors may be connected. Special Guest: Clay Routledge.</p> intellectual diversity, politics, psychology, academia, religion, meaning Yoel and Mickey welcome Clay Routledge to the show. Clay is a professor of psychology at North Dakota State University who studies the cognitive and motivational consequences of the search for meaning, including religion and other supernatural beliefs. Clay talks about his childhood growing up as the child of missionaries in Africa and the U.S., what it's like to be outside the liberal mainstream in psychology, and how religion and belief in alien visitors may be connected.

Special Guest: Clay Routledge.

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]]> Yoel and Mickey welcome Clay Routledge to the show. Clay is a professor of psychology at North Dakota State University who studies the cognitive and motivational consequences of the search for meaning, including religion and other supernatural beliefs. Clay talks about his childhood growing up as the child of missionaries in Africa and the U.S., what it's like to be outside the liberal mainstream in psychology, and how religion and belief in alien visitors may be connected.

Special Guest: Clay Routledge.

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]]> Episode 7: When Does the Left Go Too Far? https://www.fourbeers.com/7 6c194b34-cf56-4708-8f2e-87ffa29ef362 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 7 When Does the Left Go Too Far? full Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett 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. 1:14:14 yes <p>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. The conversation includes a discussion of identity politics, the problems with subjectivity, the challenge of balancing the desire for justice with the desire for truth, and the inherent problem of being both a scientist and activist. Before debating the supposed sins of the Left, Yoel and Mickey discuss a new paper overturning the cause of the so-called negativity bias (i.e., the notion that bad is stronger than good).</p> <p>Bonus: Mickey makes a risky hypothesis about German beers. Can any listeners provide evidence that disconfirms Mickey’s bold claim? </p> politics, the Left, identity politics, subjectivity, activism, social justice, microaggressions, negativity bias, German beer 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. The conversation includes a discussion of identity politics, the problems with subjectivity, the challenge of balancing the desire for justice with the desire for truth, and the inherent problem of being both a scientist and activist. Before debating the supposed sins of the Left, Yoel and Mickey discuss a new paper overturning the cause of the so-called negativity bias (i.e., the notion that bad is stronger than good).

Bonus: Mickey makes a risky hypothesis about German beers. Can any listeners provide evidence that disconfirms Mickey’s bold claim?

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]]> 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. The conversation includes a discussion of identity politics, the problems with subjectivity, the challenge of balancing the desire for justice with the desire for truth, and the inherent problem of being both a scientist and activist. Before debating the supposed sins of the Left, Yoel and Mickey discuss a new paper overturning the cause of the so-called negativity bias (i.e., the notion that bad is stronger than good).

Bonus: Mickey makes a risky hypothesis about German beers. Can any listeners provide evidence that disconfirms Mickey’s bold claim?

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