Two Psychologists Four Beers

By Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa TullettSociety & Culture Science Social Sciences Life Sciences

Two Psychologists Four Beers episodes

April 28, 2021Episode 64: Quick Fixes (with Jesse Singal)
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
1 hr 19 min
March 24, 2021Episode 63: Legalize It (with Carl Hart)
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
1 hr 23 min
February 24, 2021Episode 62: Actually Against Academia (with Lee Jussim)
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
1 hr 21 min
January 27, 2021Episode 61: Bullshit, Misinformation, and What to Do About It (with Gord Pennycook)
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
1 hr 23 min
December 30, 2020Episode 60: 2020 Silver Linings
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
1 hr 19 min
December 16, 2020Episode 59: Talking about Talking (with Katie Kinzler)
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?
Bilingual Children’s Thinking About the Stability of Language
How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do―And What It Says About You: Kinzler, Katherine D.: 9780544986558: Amazon.com: Books
1 hr 11 min
December 02, 2020Episode 58: Sexism and Racism on Campus (with Anne Wilson)
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
1 hr 42 min
November 11, 2020Episode 57: Against Academia?
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
1 hr 20 min
October 21, 2020Episode 56: The Kindness of Strangers (with Michael McCullough)
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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Promo Code: BEERS
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
1 hr 40 min
October 07, 2020Episode 55: All In (with Maria Konnikova)
Psychologist and author Maria Konnikova joins the show to talk poker, life, and what one teaches you about the other. She talks with us about working with Walter Mischel as a graduate student, her decision to leave the academic track to become an author, and her latest book, The Biggest Bluff, in which she describes how she became a tournament-winning professional poker player.
Bonus: who will win our round of Lodden Thinks?
Special Guest: Maria Konnikova.
Sponsored By:
The Great Courses Plus: The Great Courses Plus is a Video-On-Demand service brought to you by The Great Courses – the leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment. With thousands of in-depth videos taught by the world’s greatest professors, you’ll always have something fascinating to learn about.
Promo Code: BEERS
Links:
E.H. Taylor, Jr. Bourbon
ÉPHÉMÈRE SEA BUCKTHORN BERRY | Unibroue
Michael Inzlicht (@minzlicht) / Twitter
Maria Konnikova
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win: Konnikova, Maria: 9780525522621: Amazon.com: Books
Supermarket Sweep - YouTube
1 hr 8 min