- Publisher |
- Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett
- Media Type |
- audio
- Podknife tags |
- Alcohol,
- News & Politics,
- Psychology,
- Science & Medicine,
- Social Sciences
- Categories Via RSS |
- Life Sciences,
- Science,
- Social Sciences,
- Society & Culture
- People |
- Country Of Origin |
- Canada
- Produced In |
- Toronto, Ontario
- Premiere Date |
- 2018-05-19
- Frequency |
- Biweekly
- Explicit |
- Yes
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Submit ReviewYoel and Alexa discuss a recent paper that takes a machine learning approach to estimating the replicability of psychology as a discipline. The researchers' investigation begins with a training process, in which an artificial intelligence model identifies ways that textual descriptions differ for studies that pass versus fail manual replication tests. This model is then applied to a set of 14,126 papers published in six well-known psychology journals over the past 20 years, picking up on the textual markers that it now recognizes as signals of replicable findings. In a mysterious twist, these markers remain hidden in the black box of the algorithm. However, the researchers hand-examine a few markers of their own, testing whether things like subfield, author expertise, and media interest are associated with the replicability of findings. And, as if machine learning models weren't juicy enough, Yoel trolls Alexa with an intro topic hand-selected to infuriate her.
Links:
- Two Psychologists Four Beers on Untappd
- A discipline-wide investigation of the replicability of Psychology papers over the past two decades | PNAS
- Best-Selling Author & Harvard Professor Steven Pinker Will Transform His Ideas into NFTs | Blockster
- Are NFTs a Good Investment? | MoneyUnder30
- Miss Grit - Like You (Lyric Video) - YouTube
Alexa and Yoel chat with Paul Bloom about his newest book, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind. The book, built from Paul's popular Introduction to Psychology course, is an opinionated overview of the field of psychology but also a window into his deep fascination with the mind. Yoel and Alexa spend some time picking Paul's brain, inquiring about writing, and teaching, and how to avoid boredom. But Paul has a few questions of his own, challenging the cohosts to consider what their own version of Psych would look like. In the process, their conversation ranges from Freudian dream content, to the limitations of psychology, to the (glaring omission of) the anatomy of the inner ear.
Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
Links:
- Two Psychologists Four Beers on Untappd
- Paul Bloom
- Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
- How To Be Good | The New Yorker
- Amazon.com: Books">Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help: MacFarquhar, Larissa: 9780143109785: Amazon.com: Books
- Amazon.com: Books">Future Home of the Living God: A Novel: Erdrich, Louise: 9780062694065: Amazon.com: Books
Andrew Devendorf joins Alexa and Yoel to discuss his work on "me-search" (or self-relevant research) within clinical psychology. He talks about the prevalence of mental health difficulties within the field, and the harmful taboos against speaking openly about them. And, he shares his own reasons for studying depression and suicide, and how he has been discouraged from citing personal experience as a motivation for his work. Their conversation also explores common misconceptions about mental illness, strengths of self-relevant research, and ways to be more supportive to those facing mental health challenges. In the end, Yoel and Alexa fail to resolve their debate about the existence of the "unbiased researcher."
Special Guest: Andrew Devendorf.
Links:
- Two Psychologists Four Beers on Untappd
- Andrew Devendorf, M.A.
- PsyArXiv Preprints | Stigmatizing our own: Self-relevant research (Me-search) is common but frowned upon in clinical psychological science
- PsyArXiv Preprints | Is "me-search" a Kiss of Death in mental health research
- Only Human: Mental-Health Difficulties Among Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Faculty and Trainees
- My Brother Went Missing, And The Search For Him Turned My World Upside Down | HuffPost HuffPost Personal
- NADA SURF - where is my mind? (Official Video) - YouTube
Alexa and Yoel discuss the much trodden topic of implicit bias from a less trodden perspective: that of the general public. Offering insight into the public's views is a paper by Jeffrey Yen, Kevin Durrheim, and Romin Tafarodi, which explores public thinking about the implicit association test (IAT) through an examination of the New York Times comments section. These comments demonstrate varying reactions to the idea that negative associations with some identities - racial and otherwise - can bubble beneath the surface of our explicit attitudes. Some dismiss the IAT as "academic abstraction," while others see their scores as an opportunity for confession, or even absolution. Still others embrace the role of troll, a topic foreshadowed by our discussion of the proposed overhauling of New College of Florida.
Links:
- Two Psychologists Four Beers on Untappd
- 'I'm happy to own my implicit biases': Public encounters with the implicit association test - PubMed
- The Bias of Individuals (in Crowds): Why Implicit Bias Is Probably a Noisily Measured Individual-Level Construct - Paul Connor, Ellen R. K. Evers, 2020
- Project Implicit
- rufo-florida-ron-desantis.html" title="Opinion | DeSantis Allies Plot the Hostile Takeover of a Liberal College - The New York Times">Opinion | DeSantis Allies Plot the Hostile Takeover of a Liberal College - The New York Times
- Pascal Comelade & Les Limiñanas - T.B. JerK +++ - YouTube
Yoel and special guest Rachel Hartman discuss the recent ouster of Klaus Fiedler, the former Editor in Chief of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, over allegations of racism and abuse of power. They try to untangle a complicated story of peer review gone awry, explain the dueling open letters condemning and supporting Fiedler, and critically evaluate the allegations against him as well as the process that led to his dismissal as EIC. Along the way, they also talk about wine spritzers and journal prestige.
Special Guest: Rachel Hartman.
Links:
- Two Psychologists Four Beers on Untappd
- More of a Comment Than a Question
- Dealing with Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology (Roberts, 2022)
- Dealing with diversity in psychology: Science or ideology? (Hommel, 2022)
- of-Diversity-Jussim-accepted-revised-double-spaced-2.0.pdf" title="Diversity is Diverse: Social Justice Reparations and Science (Jussim, 2022)">Diversity is Diverse: Social Justice Reparations and Science (Jussim, 2022)
- Letter to APS calling for Fiedler to be fired
- Letter to APS calling for due process
- december-editorial-statement.html" title="APS Statements in Response to Concerns About Editorial Practices at Perspectives on Psychological Science">APS Statements in Response to Concerns About Editorial Practices at Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Joachim Krueger's Resignation Letters
- Interventions to reduce partisan animosity | Nature Human Behaviour
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Burning (Official Video) - YouTube
In a recent article, psychologists Webb and Tangney document their experience collecting psychology data online using Amazon's crowdsourcing platform MTurk. Alarmingly, the authors conclude that ultimately only 2.6% of their sample was valid data from human beings. Yoel and Alexa weigh in on these findings, discussing what researchers can reasonably expect from online studies and platforms, and how their personal experiences have informed their own practices. They also consider a response written by Cuskley and Sulik, who argue that researchers, not recruitment platforms, are responsible for ensuring the quality of data collected online. Questions that arise include: What studies do people want to do? Does anyone read the fine print? And what are the ethics of mouse-hunting?
Links:
- Two Psychologists Four Beers on Untappd
- Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk - Margaret A. Webb, June P. Tangney, 2022
- PsyArXiv Preprints | The burden for high-quality online data collection lies with researchers, not recruitment platforms
- Living in Harmony with House Mice and Rats | PETA
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Spencer Greenberg, founder of the behavioral science startup incubator Spark Wave and host of the Clearer Thinking podcast. He describes how he became fascinated with psychology and behavior change, and how he's been working to provide empirically-backed strategies for everday tasks, like making decisions or forming habits. He also offers an alternative perspective on open science, arguing that a phenomenon he calls "importance hacking" has been overshadowed by p-hacking in calls for science reform. Greenberg further challenges the Alexa and Yoel to consider whether the "open scientist" will fall short of what can only be achieved by the truly "inspired scientist." Finally, Spenccer has a major project in the works, and he gives us the honor of the big reveal.
Special Guest: Spencer Greenberg.
Links:
- Two Psychologists Four Beers on Untappd
- How Much Alcohol Is in Kombucha? | Revolution Fermentation
- Career science, open science, and inspired science (with Alexa Tullett) | Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
- Transparent Replications
- Home | Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
- ClearerThinking.org">Free Courses for Decision Making And Reasoning - ClearerThinking.org
- Positly: Study Participant Recruitment for Research, Surveys, Experiments
- GuidedTrack – GuidedTrack
- Rooks - YouTube
With grad school application deadlines around the corner, Alexa and Yoel discuss how, exactly, that process works. Big picture, they talk about their goals in selecting graduate students to work on their labs, and whether they've gotten good at the process. They also examine typical application requirements - including recommendation letters, personal statements, GPAs, and (sometimes) the GRE - and consider which they'd keep, and which they'd prefer to never deal with again.
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Yoel and Alexa discuss a recent paper, written by Hughes, Srivastava, Leszko, and Condon, that created and validated a new index of "occupational prestige." The index is intended to provide a tool to measure the third component of socioeconomic status, alongside income and education. The cohosts consider how occupational prestige might lead to differential treatment, or even unrealistic expectations ("is anyone in this hotel a doctor?"). Digging deeper, they discuss the paper's exploration of ways that prestige tracks with the physical, critical thinking, and interpersonal demands of a profession. Finally, they realize that as a "former social neuroscientist," Alexa hasn't been getting the respect she deserves.
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Paul Bloom joins Yoel and Alexa to talk about the glamour and humiliation of teaching psychology at the college level. They discuss how they've changed their approaches to teaching over the years, and whether they've become more skilled or more out of touch (or both). Alexa shares her experiences teaching about morality and evolution to a predominantly Christian student body, Yoel laments the fact that his students aren't more disagreeable, and Paul claims that critical thinking is overrated. In an era of increasing remote instruction, they claim that online courses can't do what they do. But, only Yik Yak knows for sure.
Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
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