Displaying 5 items of Two Psychologists Four Beers with the tag "social media".
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Episode 112: All About ADHD (with Amori Mikami)
September 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 49 secs
adhd, mental health, social media
ADHD expert Amori Mikami joins the show to talk attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). What is it, how has our understanding of it changed over the years, and how accurate is the public discourse about it?
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Episode 89: What's Wrong with Social Media?
June 22nd, 2022 | 1 hr 23 mins
big potato, social media, structural stupidity, well-being
Mickey returns to join Alexa and Yoel in a discussion of the evils of social media (or lack thereof). The three cohosts dissect two articles - one by Haidt and another by Orben and Przybylski - in an effort to decide whether social media poses a serious threat to our well-being.
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Episode 65: Our Social Media Prisms
May 26th, 2021 | 1 hr 28 mins
french, polarization, politics, social media
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.
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Episode 13: What's Wrong with the IAT? (with Jesse Singal)
November 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 44 secs
implicit association test, moral outrage, science journalism, social media
Journalist Jesse Singal joins Mickey and Yoel to talk about the state of science journalism, what he thinks is wrong with how people interpret the Implicit Association Test (IAT), and the pros and cons of moral outrage.
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Episode 12: Everybody Hates Social Media
October 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 3 mins
facebook, open science, outrage, social media, twitter
Mickey and Yoel take on social media. What are the upsides and downsides of being on social media, particularly Twitter? Why does Mickey ban himself from social media for most of the day? Would the open science movement have happened without social media? Bonus: when is it a good idea to give voice to the voiceless?