Alexa and Yoel go deep on self-care. What is it, how do you do it, and why does the term raise Yoel's hackles? How hard do we actually work, and should we be trying to work less?

Also, Alexa shares an amazingly successful culinary experiment.

Links:

• The Least Stressful Jobs Of 2013
• How Hard Do Professors Actually Work? - The Atlantic
• Research shows professors work long hours and spend much of day in meetings
• How I Practice Self-Care as a Black Woman in Academia | Time
• Academics should make time for self-care, even if just a few minutes each day (opinion)
• ‘Self-care’: how a radical feminist idea was stripped of politics for the mass market | André Spicer | The Guardian
• Slush - Prairie Artisan Ales
• Milkshake IPA - Microbrasserie Vox Populi
• Molotov Cocktail | Evil Twin Brewing
• L'Espace Public – Brasseurs de quartier
• Two Psychologists Four Beers - Blog - Alexa's Beer Float Recipe
• Islands: Natural Law Party - YouTube

Alexa and Yoel discuss "The Anticreativity Letters," a satirical article by Richard Nisbett that advises young psychology researchers to (among other things) avoid being overly critical. How does the article's advice hold up today? How does one combine appropriate skepticism with enthusiasm for research? Or are the two in conflict at all?

Plus: Alexa gets salty about salty drinks, and Yoel returns to the gym.

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Links:

• The Anticreativity Letters
• Citrus Sage | Cascade Brewing
• Lueur | Collectif Brassicole Ensemble Inc.
• Confliction | Sloop Brewing
• Blanche Du Paradis | Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!
• The Offspring - Cool to Hate

Mickey and Yoel welcome repeat guest Ted Slingerland to talk about his new book "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization," in which he makes the case for alcohol.

Also, why are Yoel's guns out, and what was Mickey's worst trip?

Special Guest: Edward (Ted) Slingerland.

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Links:

• Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
• Two Psychologists Four Beers Episode 18: What Science and the Humanities Offer Each Other (with Edward Slingerland)
• Mango & Passion Fruit Milkshake - Collective Arts Brewing
• A DIPA (Loral, Vic Secret, Motueka, Mosaic & Galaxy) – Bellwoods Brewery
• Dubbel — Red Collar Brewing & Distilling Co.
• Soleil Levant - Microbrasserie Vagabond
• Lotus - Microbrasserie Vagabond
• Jägermeister

Yoel and Alexa discuss progress in open science over the past 10 years. Is the scientific reform glass half-full or half-empty? Where have we made progress, and what still needs work? We use two papers describing "Scientific Utopia" by Nosek and colleagues (written nearly 10 years ago!) in order to evaluate our progress.

Also, the true story of how Ashley Madison got its name.

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Links:

• Unibroue | Megadeth Saison 13
• Just the Juice - Prairie Artisan Ales
• Solstice d'Eté (Framboise) - Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!
• Rinse/Repeat Idaho 7 Cashmere - Westbrook Brewing Co.
• Scientific utopia: I. Opening scientific communication.
• Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability - Brian A. Nosek, Jeffrey R. Spies, Matt Motyl, 2012
• Joy and rigor in behavioral science
• St. Vincent - The Melting Of The Sun (Official Video)

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