Yoel and Mickey welcome Nina Strohminger, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School of Business, to the show. Nina delivers entertaining takes on digust and morality, the true self, adventures in academia, and writing heroic book reviews. Do incidental emotions reliably impact decision making? What aspect of mind is at the core of one's identity? Which neurodegenerative diseases are the most difficult for caregivers to cope with? What does Nina really think about Colin McGinn's book, The Meaning of Disgust?

Bonus: What is worse: pop-psychology or pop-philosophy?

Special Guest: Nina Strohminger.

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Links:

• Home/Neuigkeiten - Helios-Braustelle
• Why We love to be grossed out
• Disgust Talked About - Strohminger - 2014 - Philosophy Compass - Wiley Online Library
• Would You Rather Lose Your Morals or Your Memory? | The New Republic
• Neurodegeneration and Identity - Nina Strohminger, Shaun Nichols, 2015
• Author Reply: Grasping the Nebula: Inelegant Theories for Messy Phenomena - Nina Strohminger, 2014
• An Exchange on Disgust - Daily Nous
• The Meaning of Disgust: A Refutation
• (5) 乇乂ㄒ尺卂 ㄒ卄丨匚匚 (VIII) (@NinaStrohminger) / Twitter

Yoel and Mickey welcome evolutionary psychologist Joshua Tybur to the podcast to discuss COVID-19 and the function of disgust as part of the behavioral immune system. What is the relationship between disgust sensitivity and political orientation? Can the theory of evolutionary act as a meta-theory for the study of human psychology? Why is evolutionary psychology so controversial and polarizing?

Bonus: Would Mickey inflate a new unlubricated condom with his mouth?

Special Guest: Joshua Tybur.

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Links:

• Moosehead Radler | Blog | Moosehead Breweries
• Home - Jopenkerk Haarlem
• How Coronavirus Bypasses Our Behavioral Immune System (And What We Can Do About It) – The Evolution Institute
• Is the relationship between pathogen avoidance and ideological conservatism explained by sexual strategies? - ScienceDirect
• Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations | PNAS
• Why do people vary in disgust? | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Testing the Controversy | SpringerLink
• When theory trumps ideology: Lessons from evolutionary psychology | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
• Frontiers | Why isn't everyone an evolutionary psychologist? | Psychology
• Do social psychologists have an ideological aversion to evolutionary psychology? – Research Digest
• Cue masking and cultural signals: Testing context-specific preferences for bald(ing) leaders - ScienceDirect

Yoel and Mickey welcome return guest Elizabeth Page-Gould to the podcast to discuss adults with and without children. Why did Liz choose to have children? What do we make of fathers who leave their familiies? How does society view people without children? What is the logic behind anti-natalism?

Bonus: What is concept creep and is it necessarily a bad thing?

Special Guest: Elizabeth Page-Gould.

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• Beer | Steel & Oak Brewing Co.
• Old Yale Brewing
• Tree Brewing Company
• Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology
• Why men leave their wives and families - a man shares his story
• Fathers Who Leave | Psychology Today Canada
• The Case for Not Being Born | The New Yorker
• When men choose to be childless: An interpretative phenomenological analysis - Imogene Smith, Tess Knight, Richard Fletcher, Jacqui A. Macdonald, 2020
• “There’s More Thinking to Decide”: How the Childfree Decide Not to Parent - Amy Blackstone, Mahala Dyer Stewart, 2016
• Parenthood as a Moral Imperative? Moral Outrage and the Stigmatization of Voluntarily Childfree Women and Men | SpringerLink

As Little Urban Achievers, Yoel and Mickey delight in discussing previews for The Jesus Rolls, a Big Lebowski spinoff starring John Torturo as Jesus Quintana. They next talk about the University of California's policy of selecting faculty job candidates based primarily on their diversity and inclusion statements. They finally talk science: What happens when open science advocates veer from their pre-registration plans and fail to reject the null hypothesis? Should we care about effect sizes in psychology outside of applied research?

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• Indie Alehouse Brewing Co
• The Big Lebowski’s Jesus Quintana is back in first trailer for The Jesus Rolls | Ars Technica
• Life science jobs at Berkeley give precedence to candidates’ diversity and inclusion statements « Why Evolution Is True
• PsyArXiv Preprints | Many Labs 4: Failure to Replicate Mortality Salience Effect With and Without Original Author Involvement
• The Expertise of Death – The Black Goat
• PsyArXiv Preprints | A Word of Caution about Many Labs 4: If You Fail to Follow Your Preregistered Plan, You May Fail to Find a Real Effect
• PsyArXiv Preprints | Do Effect Sizes in Psychology Laboratory Experiments Mean Anything in Reality?

Yoel and Mickey welcome Stanford sociologist and psychologist Robb Willer to the show, who serves up hot takes about the replication crisis. Did the low replicabilty era in social psychology have consequences for political science or sociology? Has the open science movement benefited from motivated morality, only effecting change when change was easy? Despite intentions, will the open science movement make science even more elitist?

Bonus: Taking psychedelic drugs at music concerts is fun!

Special Guest: Robb Willer.

Links:

• Fog Breaker IPA | Anchor Brewing Company
• Transformative experience and social connectedness mediate the mood-enhancing effects of psychedelic use in naturalistic settings | PNAS
• Amon Tobin - One Shy Morning (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Yoel and Mickey discuss a new paper by Tal Yarkoni suggesting that quantitative research in psychology is suffering from a generaliozability crisis. Do the numbers and statistics that psychological scientists present in their papers correspond to their verbal claims? What would psychological science look like if psychologists made fewer general statements? Should psychologists conduct more qualitative and descriptive research? Did Tal Yarkoni himself use a quantitative argument to prop up very old verbal claims about the problem of induction?

Bonus: Before discussing generalizability, Yoel and Mickey discuss Contrapoints and her new video on cancel-culture.

Links:

• DEVIL'S TRILL XII: CYPRESS TRILL — Blood Brothers
• Canceling | ContraPoints - YouTube
• Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood
• Cancel Culture Is Not Real—At Least Not in the Way You Think | Time
• Allo Darlin - Tallulah - YouTube
• PsyArXiv Preprints | The Generalizability Crisis
• The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology: The Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method: Augustine Brannigan: 0000202307433: Books - Amazon.ca
• PsyArXiv Preprints | Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm

Yoel and Mickey declare war on Christmas, discuss US-Canada differences, and almost entirely avoid serious topics.

Bonus semi-serious topic: are all theories in psychology bound to be true?

Links:

• Kitchen Party | Big Spruce Brewing | BeerAdvocate
• An Additional Future for Psychological Science - William J. McGuire, 2013
• Adam Green - Dreidels Of Fire - YouTube

Mickey and Yoel chat with Nick Hobson, a psychologist who has moved from academia to applying behavioral science in the real world. What are some of the challenges that face academics-turned-practitioners? How can you apply psychological research in a rigorous way while, at the same time, keeping the bosses happy? We talk to Nick to find out.

Plus: Yoel's eventful evening, and microdosing.

Special Guest: Nick Hobson.

Links:

• A Smiling Serial Shitter Is Terrorizing Toronto - VICE
• Call Me | chipmunks on 16 speed
• The Behaviorist
• ‎It's All Just a Bunch of BS on Apple Podcasts

Are many classic social psychology experiments more theater than science? Mickey and Yoel discuss "The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology," a book by the sociologist Augustine Brannigan that makes this provocative claim. Given the complexity of social life, are laboratory experiments just the wrong way to measure most social phenomena?

Bonus: who is Don Cherry, and what is his beef with Yoel?

Links:

• Home - Beau's
• ‘I don’t regret a thing.’ Don Cherry not backing down after being fired by Sportsnet | The Star
• Ron MacLean says Coach's Corner 'is no more' after Don Cherry firing | CTV News
• The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology: Augustine Brannigan: 0000202307433: Amazon.com: Books
• RÜFÜS DU SOL ●● You Were Right

Mickey and Yoel take advantage of the SESP (Society for Experimental Social Psychology) conference to ask guests some hard-hitting questions about the present and future of social psychology (and, of course, beers). We then answer the same questions ourselves.

Bonus: why are we banning applause on the show?

Special Guests: Hanah Chapman, Keith Maddox, Laura Niemi, and Pam Smith.

Links:

• Beau's Brewing Co. - Lug Tread
• Oxford students vote to replace clapping with silent jazz hands | News | The Times
• SESP
• Laura Niemi | Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Hanah Chapman
• Pamela Smith | Faculty | Rady School of Management | UC San Diego
• Yidan Yin
• Tufts University, Department of Psychology: People
• Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases | Science
• Exploring the landscape of modern academic psychology: Finding and filling the holes. (Paul Rozin) — Like any other domain of human activity, psychology has its fads and fashions. One consequence of fads is an overconcentration of resources on specific problems or approaches, which leaves other important problems or approaches (holes) underappreciated and understudied. This article is primarily about different factors (such as negativity bias, polarization of positions, focus on internal causes of behavior, dedication to a narrow view of what science is) that result in holes and about explorations of some of these holes that have interested the author. Psychologists should look more in the holes left behind by current enthusiasms.
• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect: Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie: 9780465097609: Amazon.com: Books
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