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
Episode 84: Check Your Values?
Alexa and Yoel fight some more, this time over whether or not science should be value free. They consider a position taken by W. E. B. Du Bois, who argued that social change was only possible if scien...
6 Apr 20221h 8min
Episode 83: Grand Challenges
Yoel and Alexa discuss the "grand challenges" of psychological science, as identified in a recent survey of APS members. While usually nauseatingly agreeable, the two find many points of contention wh...
23 Mars 20221h 15min
Episode 82: Psychology Worth Knowing
Yoel and Alexa embrace their credulous sides and consider concepts from psychology that have importance for people in their private and public lives. Each of us lists the three social psychological id...
9 Mars 20221h 15min
Episode 81: Against Retribution
Alexa moonlights as a guest and answers Yoel's questions about her recent paper, in which she argues that the criminal justice system should abandon retribution. Alexa claims that when we ask if someo...
23 Feb 20221h 10min
Episode 80: The C-Word (with Julia Rohrer)
Personality psychologist and methodologist Julia Rohrer joins the show to talk about causal claims, strategic ambiguity, and how tough it is to tell what empirical claims many psychology papers are ma...
9 Feb 20221h 26min
Episode 79: All About Authenticity
Alexa and Yoel talk authenticity. What is it? Is it good to have it? And why does Alexa score higher on it than Yoel? We talk about a draft paper examining how people infer authenticity in themselves ...
26 Jan 20221h 21min
Episode 78: Meehl on Theory
Alexa and Yoel are back with more amateur philosophy of science. This time, we do a deep dive into a paper by the legendary Paul Meehl: "Appraising and Amending Theories: The Strategy of Lakatosian De...
12 Jan 20221h 8min
