Episode 92: Should SPSP Stay Out of It?
As the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) starts gearing up for their 2023 conference, Alexa and Yoel debate some of the organization's recent efforts to be more anti-racist and poli...
3 Aug 20221h 13min
Episode 91: Decriminalizing Mental Illness
Yoel and Alexa chat with Jennifer Cox and Lauren Kois, co-directors of the Southern Behavioral Health and Law Initiative. Established in 2020, the initiative was created to address the dearth of menta...
20 Juli 20221h 21min
Episode 90: Freelance Kinkology (with Aella)
Independent researcher Aella joins Yoel and Alexa to talk about her experiences doing freelance social science. Their discussion touches on some far-ranging topics, from the upsides of Twitter microfa...
6 Juli 20221h 26min
Episode 89: What's Wrong with Social Media?
Mickey returns with the hot takes you know and love. He joins Yoel and Alexa to discuss Jonathan Haidt's recent Atlantic article, "Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid." Ha...
22 Juni 20221h 23min
Episode 88: Many Many Labs
Earlier this year, the last of five "Many Labs" projects was accepted for publication at Collabra: Psychology, representating the culmination of a nearly-decade long series of multi-lab replication ef...
8 Juni 20221h 14min
Episode 87: The Distracting Nature of Nudges
Originating within the behavioral sciences, "nudging" has received attention as a way to achieve broad societal change by promoting small, individual adjustments. We're told, for instance, that if we ...
18 Maj 20221h 11min
Episode 86: A Face For Podcasting
Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent study that examines the facial features that people perceive as "smart," "dorky," "trustworthy," or a number of other traits. The study quickly captured a lot of attent...
1 Maj 20221h 5min
Episode 85: People Dealing With the Pandemic Pretty Well, Study Finds
Originally, Yoel and Alexa set out to discuss a study examining stress and decision-making during the pandemic. However, they get sidetracked by the ways that data are packaged - first by APA, and the...
20 Apr 20221h 7min
