Episode 124: Civic Honesty Around the Globe (with David Tannenbaum)
David Tannenbaum (Associate Professor of Management at the University of Utah) joins the show to talk about one of Yoel's favorite papers: a massive field study of honesty in 40 countries that had som...
9 Okt 20251h 4min
Episode 123: RE-RELEASE: What are Teachers Good For? (with Paul Bloom)
This is a re-release of Episode 95, which was recorded in September 2023. Paul Bloom joins Yoel and Alexa to talk about the glamour and humiliation of teaching psychology at the college level. They d...
3 Sep 20251h 8min
Episode 122: When to Quit (with Paul Bloom)
Paul Bloom takes over the show to interview Yoel about loss of faith: when to give up on a theory, and which of his own findings he no longer believes. But it's not all doom and gloom! They also talk ...
7 Aug 20251h 10min
Episode 121: A New Paradigm for Psychology?
Yoel is joined by a mysterious pseudonymous duo called Slime Mold Time Mold, who are proposing a new paradigm for psychology based on principles from cybernetics. This means thinking of the behavior a...
7 Jul 20251h 23min
Episode 120: Transparent Replications (with Spencer Greenberg)
Returning guest Spencer Greenberg joins the show to talk replications, what psychologist think of terror management theory (and other controversial topics), and a machine-learning tool he developed to...
6 Jun 20251h 13min
Episode 119: The Future of DEI in Higher Ed (with Amori Mikami)
It's been a tumultuous time for DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) efforts in higher education. Whether due to political pressure, internal arguments, or both, many prominent institutions are reva...
7 Mai 20251h 46min
Episode 118: Do We Have a Purity Problem? (with David Pizarro)
Arguably, the last 25 years of moral psychology have been about people's judgments of "purity violations"--ostensibly harmless acts that "are disgusting or degrading to one’s spiritual nature." From s...
1 Apr 20251h 12min
Episode 117: Good News for the Chronics (with Mickey Inzlicht)
On-again off-again co-host Mickey Inzlicht joins the show to debrief about the recent SPSP (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) conference. We then dissect a new paper purporting to show wo...
6 Mar 20251h 19min
