Mickey, Alexa, and Yoel break down "Breaking the Social Media Prism," a new book arguing that social media reinforces our pre-existing political beliefs and polarizes us against the other side.

Plus, HUGE NEWS about who's hosting the show. Also, Yoel gets a French lesson.

Links:

• Saison - Sour beer – LOOP Mission
• Lazer Lager | Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! | BeerAdvocate
• TrimTab IPA - TrimTab Brewing Co. - Untappd
• IPA - Wild Range Brewing Company - Untappd
• Sustainability – HALF HOURS ON EARTH
• The Future Is Electric - Half Hours on Earth - Untappd
• Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing (by Chris Bail)
• Behind the Curve | Netflix
• Tweet-e-ology | Polarization Lab
• Check-my-echo | Polarization Lab
• TINARIWEN - KEL TINAWEN (Feat. Cass McCombs) - YouTube

Journalist and podcaster Jesse Singal joins the show to talk about the enduring popularity of social-psychological quick fixes and how they go wrong. Plus: what is wrong with how the media covers science?

Special Guest: Jesse Singal.

Links:

• Shipping Out of Boston | Jack's Abby
• Good Monster DIPA - Collective Arts Brewing
• Post Shift | Jack's Abby
• Glitter Bomb - Phillips Brewery
• The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills: Singal, Jesse: 9780374239800: Amazon.com: Books
• Blocked and Reported
• Alborosie - Unprecedented Time - YouTube

Neuroscientist and addiction researcher Carl Hart joins the show to talk drug legalization. Why does he think all drugs should be legal? What are some common myths about drug use and addiction? And how has his personal experience as a regular drug user influenced his views?

Bonus: What drugs should we try next?

Special Guest: Carl Hart.

Links:

• Frisch - Collective Arts Brewing
• 6ix Days in Dade | J Wakefield Brewing
• Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear: Hart, Carl L. Dr.: 9781101981641: Amazon.com: Books
• Effects of Acute Smoked Marijuana on Complex Cognitive Performance | Neuropsychopharmacology
• Inappropriate interpretations of prenatal drug use data can be worse than the drugs themselves - ScienceDirect
• Carl Hart Interview: Imagining a World Where All Drugs Are Legal | GQ
• Sylvan Esso - Free - YouTube

Lee Jussim joins the show to argue that we have been too soft on academia. We discuss problems in psychology and the social sciences including ideological bias, politically-motivated retractions, and more. Have things gotten better or worse over the past 10 years?

Plus: is Lee bad at Twitter?

Special Guest: Lee Jussim.

Links:

• 6ix Days in Dade – Bellwoods Brewery
• Avion Anejo | Spirits Review
• Balt County Brewery
• White Picket Fence – Bellwoods Brewery
• Rabble Rouser | Psychology Today
• The Princeton Faculty's Anti-Free-Speech Demands - The Atlantic
• A Model of Political Bias in Social Science Research
• Microaggressions, Questionable Science, And Free Speech

Psychologist Gordon Pennycook joins the show to talk bullshit and misinformation. What is bullshit, and why do some people fall for it more than others? Why does misinformation spread so readily, and what can be done to stop it?

Plus: Yoel asks some perfectly reasonable questions about COVID's origins, and Mickey indulges in some Canadian content.

Special Guest: Gordon Pennycook.

Links:

• Voodoo Ranger IPA | New Belgium Brewing
• Beer – Bellwoods Brewery
• Prairie Blonde - Paddock Wood Brewing Co. - Untappd
• Home - Pabst Blue Ribbon : Pabst Blue Ribbon
• Live Transmission Milkshake IPA | Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery
• Spaten | LCBO
• An analysis of the Canadian cognitive psychology job market (2006-2016) - PubMed
• Research note: Examining false beliefs about voter fraud in the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election | HKS Misinformation Review
• 11 famous Gordons
• On Bullshit: Amazon.com: Books
• It's A Good Life if you Don't Weaken - In Violet Light - The Tragically Hip - YouTube

Mickey and Yoel follow up on two recent episodes ("Against Academia?" and "Racism and Sexism on Campus"). Then they review some of the less-bad aspects of 2020 and recommend some things that got them through a challenging year. Plus: what 80s band was Mickey the #1 fan of?

Links:

• Disco Soleil | Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!
• Alouette 1 Galaxy IPA - Dominion City Brewing Co. - Untappd
• Revival Hour Saison – Dominion City Brewing Co.
• flotsam on Twitter
• Actually Against Academia
• Nature Communications retracts much-criticized paper on mentorship – Retraction Watch
• Blocked and Reported
• Big Mouth - IMDb
• I May Destroy You - IMDb
• The Queen's Gambit - IMDb
• The Expanse - IMDb
• Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder: Kaufman, Kenn: 9780618709403: Amazon.com: Books
• The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous: Henrich, Joseph: 9780374173227: Amazon.com: Books
• Amazon.com: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) (9781338635171): Collins, Suzanne: Books
• 1Q84 (Vintage International): Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip ­Gabriel: 9780307476463: Amazon.com: Books
• Andrew Bird - Greenwine (Official Audio) - YouTube

Psychologist Katie Kinzler joins the show to talk language. How do children and adults make judgments about people based on how they talk? Is there a "bilingual advantage"? And does Mickey sound Canadian?

Bonus: When deciding whether to go to grad school, should you not do what Katie did?

Special Guest: Katherine (Katie) Kinzler.

Links:

• Menagerie Single Hop Pale Ale – Fairweather Brewing Company
• Blueberry, Chocolate, Coffee & Vanilla - Collective Arts Brewing
• 815 Cabernet Sauvignon - Joel Gott Wines
• Bourbon | Knob Creek® Bourbon Whiskey
• Once a French Speaker, Always a French Speaker? — Once a French Speaker, Always a French Speaker?

Repeat guest Anne Wilson joins the show to talk about two recent papers about bias in psychology and on campus. Is gender and racial bias pervasive? Or are things better than many of us might think? We also discuss the recent "female mentorship" paper that's been causing quite the hubbub.

Special Guest: Anne Wilson.

Links:

• KEG DEALS & KICK BACKS - AMARILLO & EL DORADO • 355 ML 4-PACK – Blood Brothers Brewing
• Elora Borealis — Elora Brewing Company
• Surround Sound: Lotus - Collective Arts Brewing
• Breakaway IPA - Fixed Gear Brewing Company
• IPA 15 | Collective Arts Brewing
• The Future of Women in Psychological Science
• Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor: Evidence from the groves of academe - ScienceDirect
• For Female Scientists, There's No Good Time to Have Children - The Atlantic
• The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance | Nature Communications
• Flawed Data and Unjustified Conclusions Cannot Elevate the Status of Women in Science
• Is discrimination widespread? Testing assumptions about bias on a university campus. - PsycNET
• Exposure to peers’ pro-diversity attitudes increases inclusion and reduces the achievement gap | Nature Human Behaviour
• Cognitive costs of exposure to racial prejudice - PubMed
• Taylor Swift - The Man (Official Video) - YouTube

Mickey and Yoel tackle the pros and cons of academia. As an academic, is it taboo to say you love your job? How hard do we work anyway? If we ran the world, how would we change academic hiring?

Also: why do reporters call us and ask us for our opinion?

Links:

• Grapefruit and Elderflower - Collective Arts Brewing
• Changing demographics of scientific careers: The rise of the temporary workforce | PNAS
• The path to professorship by the numbers and why mentorship matters | Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research
• Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks | Science Advances
• Want to Be a ‘Volunteer Adjunct’? Southern Illinois U. Is Hiring
• College faculty still far less diverse than students in race, ethnicity | Pew Research Center
• Five Years of Tech Diversity Reports—and Little Progress | WIRED
• Though more women are on college campuses, climbing the professor ladder remains a challenge
• New study analyzes how faculty pay compares worldwide
• Sylvan Esso - Ferris Wheel

Psychologist Michael McCullough joins the show to talk forgiveness, punishment, and how we came to care about the welfare of people we don't know. Also: a listener calls out our dubious math.

Special Guest: Michael McCullough.

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Links:

• Broad Reach - Stonehooker Brewing Company
• Stone IPA | Stone Brewing
• Megadeth Beer
• Torpedo - Citrus, Pine & Floral IPA | Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
• Tuesday - Burdock - Untappd
• Michael McCullough
• The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
• Maxence Cyrin - Where is my mind