Everything Hertz

19: Let us spray: oxytocin and spirituality


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Dan and James discuss a recent paper on intranasal oxytocin and spirituality

Some of the topics discussed:

  • A summary of a recent paper on oxytocin and spirituality
  • Why within-subject designs are a better choice for oxytocin research
  • The physiology of nasal administration
  • How do you control for differences in nasal environment
  • Hypothesis-driven vs. exploratory research
  • Oxytocin pathway gene
  • ANCOVA and Lord's paradox (yep, it's called that)
  • Dan applauding the authors for posting ALL their data online
  • James disagrees with Dan on approaches to pre-registering studies
  • James promises never to chew during a recording (sorry!)
  • Producing research vs. actually reading other people's research
  • Our first citation (sort of)
  • How the replication crisis is the fact that we're not doing any
  • Heart rate variability in oysters (and other animals)
  • Links

    • The paper
    • http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/22/scan.nsw078

      • Dan's blog post on intranasal oxytocin administration considerations
      • https://medium.com/@dsquintana/intranasal-drug-administration-in-psychiatry-80d076f1abdd#.dsdrrohdu

        • Dan's paper on the promise and pitfalls of intranasal administration
        • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552590

          • The data from the paper
          • https://osf.io/mjhzw/

            • Our first (blog post) citation
            • https://rhythmicpsychology.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/shock-shock-horror-horror/

              • Can we replicate the replication crisis?
              • https://theconversation.com/is-psychology-really-in-crisis-60869

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