Episode 108: RE-RELEASE: We Need to Talk About Fraud
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Joe Simmons to talk about fraud. We go in-depth on a recent high-profile fraud case, but we also talk about scientific fraud more generally: how common is it, how do you d...
20 Syys 20231h 23min
Episode 107: Against Anti-DEI Rhetoric
Jennifer Gutsell joins Alexa to discuss the controversy surrounding Yoel's experience interviewing at UCLA. They focus on a post, written by Alexa, in which she pushes back against defenses of "viewp...
30 Elo 20231h 7min
Episode 106: We Need to Talk About Fraud Again
Harkening back to episode 73, Alexa and Yoel discuss recent evidence of fraud documented in the Data Colada blog post "Clusterfake." The post is the first in a series of four, which will collectively ...
23 Kesä 20231h 8min
Episode 105: Patchwork Politics
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...
17 Touko 202358min
Episode 104: Quantifying the Narrative of Replicable Science
Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent paper that takes a machine learning approach to estimating the replicability of psychology as a discipline. The researchers' investigation begins with a training proces...
29 Maalis 20231h 9min
Episode 103: Psych (with Paul Bloom)
Alexa and Yoel chat with Paul Bloom about his newest book, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind. The book, built from Paul's popular Introduction to Psychology course, is an opinionated overview of the ...
8 Maalis 20231h 9min
Episode 102: Destigmatizing Mental Health (with Andrew Devendorf)
Andrew Devendorf joins Alexa and Yoel to discuss his work on "me-search" (or self-relevant research) within clinical psychology. He talks about the prevalence of mental health difficulties within the ...
8 Helmi 20231h 19min
Episode 101: An Outside Perspective on Implicit Bias
Alexa and Yoel discuss the much trodden topic of implicit bias from a less trodden perspective: that of the general public. Offering insight into the public's views is a paper by Jeffrey Yen, Kevin Du...
18 Tammi 20231h 15min
