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A podcast about psychology, academia, culture, and politics, hosted by Rachel Hartman and Paul Connor.
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May 31, 2022
The Guns Episode
We discuss gun violence and mass shootings in the USA, as well as the debate around 'Great Replacement Theory.'
Links:
Cloud Research's Innovations in Online Research Conference: link
Tweet thread from Professor Geoffrey Miller on gun control
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May 13, 2022
The Abortion Episode
We discuss the moral philosophy of abortion, and make a few comments about the public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Roe v Wade decision.
Here's some data on the stability of public attitudes toward abortion since the 70s: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
And here's some data about the relative prevalence of bi-sexuality and homosexuality: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/how-many-people-lgbt/
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Apr 29, 2022
AI Stereotyping Gate! or: The First Yoel (Inbar appearance on the pod)
In this episode we are joined by famous podcaster Yoel Inbar (who we also found out is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto) to discuss a recent controversy surrounding this paper in PNAS, and the ethics of training machine learning models to judge and modify facial images in ways consistent with the stereotypical impressions of humans.
We also briefly discussed the dumb stick-figure meme people have been talking about.
Here are just a few pieces of research on people's ability to judge personality from physical appearance:
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.994.7&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/000712606X109648
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-20823-006
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Apr 16, 2022
Corygate II: The Interview (with Cory Clark)
We were joined by Cory Clark, director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project and visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss her research on ideological bias in science, adversarial collaboration, cheerleading, powerpoint, and more.
Follow Cory on twitter here: https://twitter.com/ImHardcory
Check out the Adversarial Collaboration Project here: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/adcollabproject/
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Apr 5, 2022
Turking Class Man (with Aaron Moss)
We chatted with Aaron Moss, senior researcher at Cloud Research, about his recent paper on the ethics of using MTurk for behavioral research, conflicts of interest, global capitalism, and Will Smith.
Read Aaron's paper here https://psyarxiv.com/jbc9d/
Check out Cloud Research here https://www.cloudresearch.com/
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Mar 21, 2022
Katie's Jaeger Bomb (with Katie Herzog)
We were joined by journalist and podcaster Katie Herzog to discuss her recent piece about an academic #metoo scandal that was not what it seemed.
You can read Katie's piece here: https://reason.com/2022/03/14/how-an-academic-grudge-turned-into-a-metoo-panic/ and listen to the BARpod episode about it here: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-106-possibly-the-craziest?s=r
Follow Katie on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog
Pinned threads by the claimants:
Jessica Cantlon: https://twitter.com/CantlonLab/status/952644834229211136?s=20&t=S3eZiKta5LD7RVRH0LwJTA
Steven Piantadosi: https://twitter.com/spiantado/status/1167918514851610624?s=20&t=S3eZiKta5LD7RVRH0LwJTA
Weird website made by some unknown party concerning the case: https://thejaegercase.com/faq
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Feb 14, 2022
Look for the Alpers (with Sinan Alper)
In this episode we are joined by Sinan Alper, a professor of Psychology at Yaşar University in Turkey, to discuss psychological research in non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) contexts, and his work on the antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy theories.
Follow Sinan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SinanAlper_
Some references:
1. Paper showing people holding contradictory conspiracy beliefs (e.g. Princess Diana was assassinated but is nonetheless still alive): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550611434786
2. Civic honesty around the globe (Science paper testing frequency of returning lost wallets in different countries): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8712
3. The backfire effect of debunking misinformation on Twitter: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445642
4. SInan's paper on the link between intuitive thinking and social conservativism in WEIRD/non-WEIRD contexts: http://journal.sjdm.org/18/181212/jdm181212.pdf
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Jan 23, 2022
Listserv-gate! And Rittenhouse-gate: a reprise!
In this episode we respond to a disgruntled listener's critiques of our previous Rittenhouse-gate! episode, and discuss a controversial proposal on the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) listserv to form a group of non-oppressed oppression researchers.
Links:
Statement by graduate students of color at UNC concerning the pervasiveness of racism in the UNC psychology department: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L6J6Ee58JM338Fu89it_iKECeWdFWwSX60W6T3eC1r8/edit
A list of references we were pointed towards as additional evidence of racism within the UNC psychology department: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UmtHuW31UDoXfFe7LT26bnDVkGrB0DzpwroAD4QRW2U/edit
Statistics concerning the demographics of SPSP members: https://www.spsp.org/sites/default/files/Member-Diversity-Statistics-December-2019.pdf
Racial Equity Tools' explainer on the reasoning behind racial affinity groups https://www.racialequitytools.org/resources/act/strategies/caucus-and-affinity-groups
Showing Up For Racial Justice's (SURJ) list of past actions taken by SURJ affinity groups https://surj.org/category/past-actions/
Opinion piece: 'Please don't ask your Black friends to teach you about racism' https://theeverymom.com/dont-ask-your-black-friends-to-teach-you-about-racism/
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Jan 15, 2022
Rittenhouse-gate! (with Paul Cernasov)
In this episode we are joined by Paul Cernasov, a graduate student of clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina, to discuss a controversy within the UNC psychology department following an official email sent out to the department regarding the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Here is the study Paul mentioned with regard to anti-Asian racism: https://virulenthate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Virulent-Hate-Anti-Asian-Racism-In-2020-5.17.21.pdf
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Dec 28, 2021
How the MIT have fallen (with Dorian Abbot)
In this episode we talked with Professor Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist from the University of Chicago whose views on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) led to the cancellation of a public lecture he was scheduled to give at MIT this autumn.
We discuss how Professor Abbot gradually became concerned enough about what he saw happening at his institution with regard to DEI that he felt compelled to raise a dissenting voice concerning on affirmative action and academic freedom.
Here is a paper by Peter Arcidiacono of Duke University, whose work Professor Abbot references in the pod, which argues that affirmative action may harm its beneficiaries in many cases: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20130626 And here is Professor Arcidiacono talking on Glenn Loury's show about more of his research:
https://twitter.com/glennloury/status/1307037150815420417?lang=hi
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Dec 17, 2021
Social Thominance Theory (with Thomas Costello)
On this episode we are joined by Thomas Costello, a PhD candidate at Emory University, to discuss his work on the fascinating but under-studied construct of Left-Wing Authoritarianism.
You can find Tom on twitter at https://twitter.com/tomstello_ and read more about his work at https://www.thcostello.com/
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Dec 4, 2021
Berea's 'Dave Reckoning' (with Dave Porter)
In this episode we are joined by air force veteran and 'professor in exile' Dave Porter to discuss the series of events that culminated in his termination from Berea College, Kentucky, and his ongoing lawsuit against the college alleging that Berea violated his and his students' academic freedom.
Some more background on Dave's story can be found here: https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/07/why-did-a-christian-college-fire-a-tenured-professor/
A letter in support of Dave published by the National Association of Scholars can be found here: https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/an-open-letter-to-lyle-d-roelofs-president-of-berea-college
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Nov 12, 2021
Hot Women-Gate! + A New University? Telos More! (With Nicole Barbaro)
It's been a big week on psych twitter! Friend of the pod Nicole Barbaro returns to help us unpack all the drama surrounding the launch of Substack U (aka the University of Austin), as well as the fifty-ninth wave of the Great Tone Debate™
Here is the University of Austin's website: https://www.uaustin.org/
And here is the paper at the center of the last few days' controversy: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjso.12489
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Nov 7, 2021
No Average Zhou (with Stephen Zhou)
In this episode we are joined by Steven Zhou, a graduate student in I-O Psychology at George Mason University, to discuss personality types. good and bad science communication, and what a healthy skepticism of academic research looks like.
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Oct 23, 2021
More of a Comment on the Offensive
In this episode, we try to unpack the notion of offensiveness, and discuss recent controversies at Yale and Netflix. What does it mean to find something offensive, and how should institutions handle situations in which individuals invoke the notion of offensiveness?
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Oct 8, 2021
Are grad students overpaid?
In this episode we muse about one of the least popular opinions possible for an academic to have: is it possible that grad students are actually not underpaid?
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Sep 25, 2021
How to avoid bad grad students
In this episode a microphone-less Paul and brand new co-host Rachel Hartman discuss the general weirdness that pervades academic mentorship and scientific training, and ask 'is there such a thing as a bad grad student?'
Link to Project SHORT event 'Pre-Grad School - Finding the Right Program and Advisor Panel': https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-short-pre-grad-school-finding-the-right-program-advisor-panel-tickets-178209528497
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Aug 20, 2021
Facts Don't Care About Your Felix (with Felix Cheung)
On this episode I'm joined by Felix Cheung from the University of Toronto to discuss his research on population-level determinants of human well-being, why Hong Kong residents are so unhappy, and thew social scientific investigation of economic inequality.
Find and follow Felix on twitter at https://twitter.com/felixckc?lang=en
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Jul 21, 2021
TheBARPod! (with Nicole Barbaro)
Nicole Barbaro of WGU Labs and Utah Valley University joins the pod to dispel all my erroneous beliefs and misunderstandings about Attachment Theory
Check out Nicole's website here https://nicolebarbaro.com/ , follow her on Twitter here https://twitter.com/NicoleBarbaro?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor , and subscribe to her substack here https://nicolebarbaro.substack.com/
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Jun 29, 2021
CRT-gate! (with Rachel Ernstoff & Manuel Galvan)
In which I welcome back Rachel Ernstoff and Manuel Galvan from the University of North Carolina to discuss what everyone else seems to be discussing: Critical Race Theory (CRT), and Republicans' efforts to ban it from schools and workplaces.
You can read about Raj Chetty's work on social mobility across racial and gender groups here: https://voxeu.org/article/race-and-economic-opportunity-united-states, and find evidence linking affirmative action bans to reduced incomes among Latinos here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3484530
Follow Rachel on twitter at https://twitter.com/RErnstoff and at https://www.rachelernstoff.com/
Follow Manny on twitter at https://twitter.com/MGalvanPsych and at https://scienceofsocialproblems.com/
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Jun 13, 2021
The Bad-Lee Needed Contrarian (with Lee Jussim)
I chat with Professor Lee Jussim of Rutgers University about ideological bias in science, academic freedom, social science as activism vs social science as truth seeking, and tennis.
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Apr 18, 2021
Self MedGate-ing (with Rachel Ernstoff & Manuel Galvan)
I invite the amazing, intelligent, insightful Rachel Ernstoff back onto the pod to discuss 'Med-Gate,' - the court case concerning whether the University of Virginia violated the first amendment rights of expelled former UVA medical student Kieran Bhattacharya, and some more general discussion about how we should think about freedom of speech.
Oh and Manuel Galvan showed up too.
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Apr 4, 2021
Facebook-Gate! Inside the 2018 Cambridge Analytica Scandal (with Alex Kogan)
In this episode I talk with my friend Alex Kogan (formerly Alex Spectre), the former professor of psychology from Cambridge University who was embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018.
If you want to know what really happened with Cambridge Analytica, or if you've ever wondered how a happy-go-lucky pro-sociality researcher could end up crashing Facebook's market value by $100 billion dollars, this is the episode for you.
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Mar 13, 2021
The Singal Greatest Interview (with Jesse Singal)
Journalist, author, and podcaster Jesse Singal joins the pod to discuss his new book 'The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills.' We also discuss some of the controversy around his work on youth gender dysphoria.
Order the book online here. You can also find Jesse on the 'Blocked and Reported' podcast, the 'Singal Minded' substack, and on twitter.
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Feb 21, 2021
Inz 'n Outs of Academia with Mickey Inzlicht
This week, we chat with fellow podcaster and social psychologist *Mickey Inzlicht*, Professor of Psychology at the *University of Toronto*, and co-host of *Two Psychologists Four Beer* (with Yoel Inbar). We talk about the advisor-graduate student dynamic, the past and future of social psychology, the replication crisis, and discuss some of the recent Psych Academic Twitter controversies.
Two Psychologists Four Beers: https://www.fourbeers.com/
* Sexism and Racism on Campus (with Anne Wilson): https://www.fourbeers.com/58
* The COVID debate (with Robb Willer and Simine Vazire): https://www.fourbeers.com/53
Lee's tweet: https://twitter.com/PsychRabble/status/1360973699822796802
Turns out Hoegaarden is Belgian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoegaarden_Brewery
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Feb 14, 2021
Chris-ky Business with Christopher Ferguson
This week, we talk to* Christopher Ferguson,* a professor of psychology at *Stetson University*. We talk about his new book, How Madness Shaped History, American politics, cancel culture, and political polarization.
Ferguson, C. J. (2020). How madness shaped history: An eccentric array of maniacal rulers, raving narcissists, and psychotic visionaries. United States: Prometheus Books.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_Madness_Shaped_History/K-iQDwAAQBAJ?hl=en
Ryan Long: When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything: https://youtu.be/Ev373c7wSRg
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Feb 7, 2021
Barry Wise with Barry Schwartz
This week, we had to cut our conversation short with a fellow social psychologist-philosopher, *Barry Schwartz*, professor emeritus of psychology at Swarthmore College, and a visiting professor at Haas School of Business. We discuss Barry's recent paper Science, scholarship, and intellectual virtues.
Schwartz, B. (2020). Science, scholarship, and intellectual virtues: A guide to what higher education should be like. Journal of Moral Education, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2020.1772211
Some relevant TED talks by Barry:
* Using Your Practical Wisdom: https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_using_our_practical_wisdom?language=en
* Our Loss of Wisdom: https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_our_loss_of_wisdom/transcript?language=en
Cyanide and Happiness comic about science: https://explosm.net/comics/3557/#lIXOSa8dUTRXlpmY.16
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Jan 23, 2021
Don' Stop Believin' with Don Moore
This week, we chat with *Don Moore*, a professor in the Management of Organization group at the *Haas School of Business,* and author of *Perfectly Confident*. We talk about confidence, overconfidence, perseverance, the tall poppy syndrome, and share our favorite dad jokes.
Don's book, Perfectly Confident: https://perfectlyconfident.com/
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Jan 17, 2021
The Importance of Being Ernst with Rachel Ernstoff
In our first episode of the new year, we're joined by Rachel Ernstoff, a social psychology graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill studying intergroup relations and political polarization. In this episode, Rachel shares her fascinating background with us, after which we discuss political polarization and the research around it, the recent attack the Capitol, and Trump's Twitter ban.
Rachel's posts on The Pipettepen: http://www.thepipettepen.com/author/ernstofflive-unc-edu/
Rachel's blog: https://rationalsnowflake.blogspot.com/
ABC News, 24 Hours: Assault on the Capitol (available on Hulu): https://abcnews.go.com/US/attack-capitol-broken-24-hours-hulu-special/story?id=75184339
Twitter's post on the suspension of @realDonaldTrump: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html
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Dec 6, 2020
Robbing the Cranium with Rob Chavez
This week, we talk to *Rob Chavez*, an *assistant professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon*. We discuss what social neuroscience is, how social psychology can inform neuroscience, and whether our understanding of the brain can have broader impacts on society.
*This is your Brain on Psychology – This is your Psychology on Brain (a guest post by Rob Chavez): *https://thehardestscience.com/2018/11/30/this-is-your-brain-on-psychology-this-is-your-psychology-on-brain-a-guest-post-by-rob-chavez/
*Niv, Yael. (2020, October 22). The primacy of behavioral research for understanding the brain. *https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y8mxe
*Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips*
In additional to being a mathematician, Sir Roger Penrose is also a physicist and philosopher of science. He received the Nobel prize in Physics this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0&t=2s
The structure that make up the mitotic spindles are microtu…
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Nov 29, 2020
Kat Race with Kathryn McCabe
This week, we have an in-depth conversation with *Kat (Kathryn) McCabe*, a social ecologist and antiracism educator, about the modern antiracist movement and its potential impact on race relations.
The Change Agency: https://www.thechangeagency.ie
Short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
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Nov 22, 2020
Mentorshipgate!
This week, we discuss the recent controversy surrounding a Nature Communications paper that looks at informal mentorship, the gender of mentee/mentors, and subsequent scientific impact of the mentees. There has a been a call from the Twitter science community for the retraction of the paper.
*Edit*: Smriti mentions that someone had tweeted and asked people to email the first author, but it was actually the EIC of Nature Comm:
https://twitter.com/pollyp1/status/1329414989032157185
*Paper: *
AlShebli, B., Makovi, K. & Rahwan, T. (2020). The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance. Nat Commun *11, *5855. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19723-8
*Reviewer Comments: *
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-020-19723-8/MediaObjects/41467_2020_19723_MOESM2_ESM.pdf
*Some relevant twitter threads:
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Open letter to Nature Comm editor-in-chief: https://twitter.com/pollyp1/status/1329455882481131524…
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Nov 16, 2020
Electiongate!
This week, we talk about the different responses to the election from the left, and what can be done to heal the growing political divide in this country.
Greater Good Science Center, "Bridging Differences Playbook": https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/uploads/Bridging_Differences_Playbook-Final.pdf
Derek Thompson, "The Most Important Divide in American Politics Isn’t Race": https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/2020-election-results-prove-density-destiny/617027/
Matthew Yglesias, "Trump’s gains with Hispanic voters should prompt some progressive rethinking": https://www.vox.com/2020/11/5/21548677/trump-hispanic-vote-latinx
Charles Blow, "Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/opinion/election-2020-exit-polls.html
Freelance writer Tim Stone banned from Rock Paper Shotgun, https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1326240111609012224
James Lindsey's tweet criticizing Jonny Sun's tweet criticizing empathy, https://twi…
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Nov 8, 2020
Galvanizing the Left with Manuel Galvan
This week, we talk to our friend *Manuel (Manny) Galvan*, a* *graduate student at* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, *about the election, political polarization in America, the excesses of the left, cancel culture, BLM/Defund the Police, and Manny's vision of a way forward.
You can find Manny on *Twitter **@MGalvanPsych**; *his blog, *The Science of Social Problems*: https://scienceofsocialproblems.com/author/scienceofsocialproblems/; and *The Pipettepen*: http://www.thepipettepen.com/author/mjgalvan/
*Cancel culture
*Cancel culture is a significant issue for conservatives: https://theweek.com/articles/928464/cancel-culture-conservative-glass-houses
To some extent the morel panic over Cancel culture is a billionaire-funded operation:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/dark-money-behind-campus-speech-wars/
https://prospect.org/justice/care-faux-free-speech-warriors-koch-brothers-paying-bills./
https://fair.org/home/panic-over-cancel-culture-is-another-example-of-…
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Oct 11, 2020
The Times They Are a-Chen-gin' with Serena Chen
Last week, we spoke to our very own faculty advisor, *Serena Chen*! Serena's the *first Asian-American chair of UC Berkeley's Department of Psychology*, and one of the most refreshingly candid academics out there. We discuss the recent paper on the future of women in psychological science, on which Serena is a co-author, along with many other female faculty at Berkeley Psych. We also talk about open science, social psych literature, and the future of academia.
Gruber et al. (2020). The Future of Women in Psychological Science: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691620952789?journalCode=ppsa
150 years of Women in Psychology at Berkeley: https://psychology.berkeley.edu/celebrating-150-years-women-psychology-berkeley
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Oct 3, 2020
"Scheel be right, mate" with Anne Scheel
This week, we talk to *Anne Scheel*, a doctoral candidate at the *Eindhoven University of Technology, *about her upcoming paper Why Hypothesis Testers Should Spend Less Time Testing Hypotheses.
Scheel, A.M., Tiokhin L., Isager, P.M., & Lakens, D. (in press). Why hypothesis testers should spend less time testing hypotheses. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://psyarxiv.com/vekpu/
*Kama Muta (a Sanskrit word!)
*Open-access versions of all papers (including the book chapter) on the website: kamamutalab.org
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*Anne's recommendation for a good place to start:
Fiske, A. P., Seibt, B., & Schubert, T. (2019). The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It. Emotion Review, 11(1), 74–86. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073917723167
Fiske, A. P., Schubert, T., & Seibt, B. (2017). ‘Kama muta’ or ‘being moved by love’: A bootstrapping approach to the ontology and epistemology of an emotion. In J. L. Cassaniti & U. Menon (Eds.), Uni…
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Sep 19, 2020
Tage-gate!
This week, we talk about the controversy over a blog by an anonymous person on Twitter, *AlvaroDeMenard*, about participating in "Replication Markets, a part of DARPA's SCORE program, whose goal is to evaluate the reliability of social science research."
The thread about this on Twitter elicited a response from an editor at Science, *Tage Rai*, and consequently, multiple responses to that from the *Open Science community*.
*Original thread by @AlvaroDeMenard
*https://twitter.com/AlvaroDeMenard/status/1304399437641461760
*Associated Blog*: https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/
*Tage Rai's Response
*https://twitter.com/tage_rai/status/1304985745157914624
*Some notable responses to Tage*
Brian Nosek: https://twitter.com/BrianNosek/status/1305319912613838850
Fiona Fidler: https://twitter.com/fidlerfm/status/1305372732889026560
Simine Vazire: https://twitter.com/siminevazire/status/1305703047096532993
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Paul Meehl's lecture* (start…
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Sep 13, 2020
Krug-gate!
This week, we talk about the recent self-exposé of a (now former) African history professor at George Washington University, *Jessica Krug*, which revealed that she had been pretending to be Black/African-American/Afro-Latinx.
Jessica Krug's medium post: https://medium.com/@jessakrug/the-truth-and-the-anti-black-violence-of-my-lies-9a9621401f85
Medium post outing CV Vitolo-Haddad, grad student at UW Madison: https://medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110
Azevedo et al. (2013) Their Pain is Not Our Pain: Brain and Autonomic Correlates of Empathic Resonance With the Pain of Same and Different Race Individuals: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hbm.22133
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Sep 5, 2020
Koched Up Models with Alex Koch
This week, we're joined by *Alex Koch*, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at *Chicago Booth. *We talk about Alex's ABC model of stereotype content, adversarial collaborations, and the utility of social cognition research.
Ellemers et al. (2020). Adversarial alignment enables competing models to engage in cooperative theory building toward cumulative science: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/14/7561
The ABC of Stereotypes About Groups: https://tinyurl.com/yxnnjlbf
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Aug 25, 2020
Turning Over a New Leif with Leif Nelson
In this episode, we talk to *Leif Nelson*, professor at *Haas School of Business *at *UC Berkeley*. We talk about open science, the False Positive Psychology paper and its aftermath, current Data Colada replication efforts, and Paul's undying fascination with Leif.
False Positive Psychology: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797611417632
Data Colada (blog by Leif, Uri Simonsohn, and Joe Simmons): http://datacolada.org/
As Predicted: https://aspredicted.org/
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Aug 14, 2020
SATgate!
In this episode, we discuss the recent decision by University of California to get rid of the SAT test as part of the undergraduate admissions process. We talk about the Psychology Today articles that recently touched on this, the recommendations from the UC Academic Senate's Standardized Testing Task Force (STTF), and the recent lawsuits against universities for discriminating against Asian and Asian-American students.
We also realized that we're no professors at University of Toronto and should probably not drink while podcasting.
Psychology Today articles by Andrew Conway
Part 1: The Decision https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/channel-g/202008/the-university-california-and-the-sat-speaking-the-truth
Part 2: The Reason https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/channel-g/202008/the-university-california-and-the-sat-speaking-the-truth-0
Report of the UC Academic Council's Standardized Testing Task Force: https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview/sttf-report.pdf
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Aug 7, 2020
Power Struggles with Daniël Lakens
On our first guest episode, we talk to our first (and only) fan, *Daniël Lakens*, an experimental psychologist at *Eindhoven University of Technology*. We talk about power analyses, sample size justification, SESOI, statistical 'heuristics,' and the broader culture in psychological science.
Inspired by a twitter post by Josh Grubbs: https://twitter.com/JoshuaGrubbsPhD/status/1290652864415707139
Daniël Lakens's blog, The 20% Statistician: https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/
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Jul 31, 2020
Educationgate!
We discuss the recent Blocked & Reported interview of writer Freddie deBoer on his book "The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice."
https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/22
Vaci, N., Edelsbrunner, P., Stern, E., Neubauer, A., Bilalić, M., & Grabner, R. H. (2019). The joint influence of intelligence and practice on skill development throughout the life span. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(37), 18363-18369.
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/37/18363.full.pdf
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Jul 24, 2020
Science Communicationgate!
We discuss the recent paper "Communicating What We Know, and What Isn’t So: Science Communication in Psychology" by Neil Lewis Jr. and Jonathan Wai.
Link to paper: https://psyarxiv.com/cfmzk
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Jul 10, 2020
Open Lettergate!
We talk about Harper's magazine's open letter on free speech and open debate, and the internet's response to it.
Open letter: https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
Response: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/arts/open-letter-debate.html
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Jul 6, 2020
PCgate!
We discuss James Heathers's Medium post explaining why he's quitting academia (and why he's not).
https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/i-quit-be062295f638
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Jun 26, 2020
Corygate!
We discuss the recent retraction of Clark et al. (2020) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…56797619897915
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