Nullius in Verba

By Smriti Mehta and Daniël LakensScience

Nullius in Verba episodes

December 13, 2024 Episode 49: Valor Scientiae Psychologicae
You can listen to the podcast More of a Comment Than a Question here: https://moreofacomment.buzzsprout.com/
Our joint episode is a response to the episode ‘Final Final Final Comments’: https://moreofacomment.buzzsprout.com/1207223/episodes/16055645-final-final-final-comments
1 hr 9 min
December 06, 2024Prologus 49: We Have to Break Up (R. B. Cialdini)
In preparation for our next episode, a joint recording with our friends from More of a Comment than a Question, we read a paper by Robert Cialdini about the value of social psychology for the general public.
Cialdini, R. B. (2009). We Have to Break Up. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4(1), 5–6. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01091.x
12 min
November 29, 2024 Episode 48: Defectum
How I Fail. Blog by Veronika Cheplygina https://veronikach.com/category/how-i-fail/
Arkin, R. (2011). Most Underappreciated: 50 Prominent Social Psychologists Describe Their Most Unloved Work. Oxford University Press.
Kerr, N. L. (1998). HARKing: Hypothesizing After the Results are Known. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2(3), 196–217. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0203_4
Sharpe, D. (2013). Why the resistance to statistical innovations? Bridging the communication gap. Psychological Methods, 18(4), 572–582. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034177
Anti-Creativity Letters episode: https://nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/prologus-23-the-anticreativity-letters-r-e-nisbett
Rouder, J. N., Haaf, J. M., & Snyder, H. K. (2019). Minimizing Mistakes in Psychological Science. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2(1), 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918801915
Firestein, S. (2015). Failure: Why Science Is So Successful (First Edition). Oxford University Press.
Sternberg, R. J. (Ed.). (2019). My Biggest Research Mistake: Adventures and Misadventures in Psychological Research (1st edition). SAGE Publications, Inc.
1 hr
November 15, 2024Episode 47: Inductio et Deductio
In this episode, we delve into induction and deduction and talk further about issues related to generalizability.

Shownotes
Popper, K. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. (1953). Hutchinson & Co. (Originally published in 1935)
Yarkoni, T. (2022). The generalizability crisis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e1.
Mook, D. G. (1983). In defense of external invalidity. American psychologist, 38(4), 379-387.
Salmon, W. C. (1981). Rational Prediction. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 32(2), 115–125. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/32.2.115
Reichenbach, H. (1938) [2006], Experience and Prediction: An Analysis of the Foundations and the Structure of Knowledge, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Senn, S. (2007). Statistical issues in drug development (2nd ed). John Wiley & Sons.
Ernst, M. D. (2004). Permutation Methods: A Basis for Exact Inference. Statistical Science, 19(4), 676–685.
Bacon, F. (1620). Instauratio magna [Novum organum]. London: John Bill.
Urbach, P. (1982). Francis Bacon as a Precursor to Popper. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 33(2), 113–132.
1 hr 19 min
November 01, 2024Episode 46: Invaliditas Externa
In this episode, we discuss the paper "In defense of external invalidity" by Douglas Mook.

Shownotes
Mook, D. G. (1983). In defense of external invalidity. American Psychologist, 38(4), 379–387.
Mook, D. G. (1989). The myth of external validity. Everyday cognition in adulthood and late life, 25-43.
The case of Phineas Gage was written up: Harlow, J. M. (1848). Passage of an iron rod through the head. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (1828-1851), 39(20)
1 hr 4 min
October 25, 2024Prologus 46: In Defense of External Invalidity (D. G. Mook)
A reading of the paper In Defense of External Invalidty by Douglas G. Mook, which will be discussed in the next episode.
Mook, D. G. (1983). In defense of external invalidity. American Psychologist, 38(4), 379–387. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.38.4.379
53 min
October 18, 2024Episode 45: Apprenticiatus
In this episode, we discuss the role of apprenticeship in training scientists and researchers. What’s the difference between traditional apprenticeship and cognitive apprenticeship? Does graduate training live up to its promise as an apprenticeship model? What can we do to improve the modeling of skills that are to be taught during graduate training?

Shownotes
Collins, A., Brown, J. S., & Holum, A. (1991). Cognitive apprenticeship: Making thinking visible. American educator, 15(3), 6-11.
Gabrys, B. J., & Beltechi, A. (2012). Cognitive apprenticeship: The making of a scientist. In Reshaping doctoral education (pp. 144-155). Routledge.
Casadevall, A., & Fang, F. C. (2016). Rigorous science: a how-to guide. MBio, 7(6), 10-1128.
Alvesson, M., Gabriel, Y., & Paulsen, R. (2017). Return to meaning: A social science with something to say. Oxford University Press.
Polanyi, M. (1958). Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (M. J. Nye, Ed.). University of Chicago Press.
52 min
October 04, 2024 Episode 44: Reprehensio Scientiae Aperta
This is a live episode, recorded in Växjö, Sweden (Linnaeus university) on September 24, 2024, at the 5th meeting of the Open Science Community Sweden and the Swedish Reproducibility Network. Thanks to André Kalmendal at Mono (https://monovaxjo.se) for recording the episode.
1 hr 1 min
September 20, 2024Episode 43: Historia Casus Methodi Scientifica
In this episode, we discuss the paper "A case history in scientific method" by B. F. Skinner

Shownotes
Skinner, B. F. (1956). A case history in scientific method. American psychologist, 11(5), 221.
Richter, C. P. (1953). Free research versus design research. Science, 118(3056), 91–93.
https://archive.org/details/WaldenTwoChapter01
1 hr 1 min
September 13, 2024 Prologus 43: A Case Study in Scientific Method (Skinner)
In preparation for the next episode, in which we discuss this paper, here is a reading of:
Skinner, B. F. (1956). A case history in scientific method. American Psychologist, 11(5), 221-233.
1 hr 4 min

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Nullius in Verba is a podcast about science—what it is and what it could be. It is hosted by Smriti Mehta from UC Berkeley and Daniël Lakens from Eindhoven University of…