Episode 61: Bullshit, Misinformation, and What to Do About It (with Gord Pennycook)
Psychologist Gordon Pennycook joins the show to talk bullshit and misinformation. What is bullshit, and why do some people fall for it more than others? Why does misinformation spread so readily, and ...
27 Jan 20211h 22min
Episode 60: 2020 Silver Linings
Mickey and Yoel follow up on two recent episodes ("Against Academia?" and "Racism and Sexism on Campus"). Then they review some of the less-bad aspects of 2020 and recommend some things that got them ...
30 Des 20201h 18min
Episode 59: Talking about Talking (with Katie Kinzler)
Psychologist Katie Kinzler joins the show to talk language. How do children and adults make judgments about people based on how they talk? Is there a "bilingual advantage"? And does Mickey sound Canad...
16 Des 20201h 10min
Episode 58: Sexism and Racism on Campus (with Anne Wilson)
Repeat guest Anne Wilson joins the show to talk about two recent papers about bias in psychology and on campus. Is gender and racial bias pervasive? Or are things better than many of us might think? W...
2 Des 20201h 41min
Episode 57: Against Academia?
Mickey and Yoel tackle the pros and cons of academia. As an academic, is it taboo to say you love your job? How hard do we work anyway? If we ran the world, how would we change academic hiring? Also...
11 Nov 20201h 19min
Episode 56: The Kindness of Strangers (with Michael McCullough)
Psychologist Michael McCullough joins the show to talk forgiveness, punishment, and how we came to care about the welfare of people we don't know. Also: a listener calls out our dubious math.Special G...
21 Okt 20201h 39min
Episode 55: All In (with Maria Konnikova)
Psychologist and author Maria Konnikova joins the show to talk poker, life, and what one teaches you about the other. She talks with us about working with Walter Mischel as a graduate student, her dec...
7 Okt 20201h 7min
Episode 54: Being WEIRD (with Joe Henrich)
Yoel and Mickey interview one of the most influential social scientists of our generation, Harvard University's Joe Henrich. Why are people from the West so peculiar, so different from other people th...
23 Sep 20201h 28min
