They Did What to What?

Cristina presents the original Loftus memory study of car crashes, taught to every intro to psychology class since 1974. The study is often cited as proof that witness testimony at trials can be faulty and shouldn't be trusted, but how was the study actually conducted?

In this episode, Cristina presents the history behind the bystander effect and how the murder of Kitty Genovese led to studies of prosocial behavior.

In this episode, Cristina and Martin try to find the original study that found men think women are speaking an equal amount when women speak 15% of the time and men think women dominate conversations when they speak 30% of the time.

In this episode, Martin and Cristina talk about the very famous conditioning studies of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Every student who has ever opened their psychology textbook has seen a diagram of a dog salivating at the sound of a bell, but did that ever actually happen? Was Pavlov the first scientist to describe classical conditioning?

In the Season 1 finale, Cristina and Martin discuss the famous shock experiments from Stanley Milgram, contemporary and recent criticisms of his work, and William Shatner for some reason.

Martin takes over the research in this episode and shares the paper introducing the Dunning-Kruger effect examining incompetency and competency assessment. It's quartiles all the way down.

Cristina shares papers across hundreds of years to try and find the origin point of the Kiki/Bouba phenomenon, involving blob fanfic and 1800s academic German

Cristina and Martin read The Nature of Love, a study by Harry Harlow famous for generating many pictures of sad baby monkeys and introducing us all to the concept of wire mothers.

In the inaugural episode, Martin and Cristina read the primary literature written about Phineas Gage, a railroad worker who miraculously survived an iron rod passing through his head.