Two Psychologists Four Beers Podcast
1) Episode 126: Using AI to Improve Science (with Paul Litvak)
Paul Litvak joins the show to talk about how AI tools can help us measure research quality and assess evidence in the scientific literature. His first project is a way to extract test statistics and p...Show More
2) Episode 125: Citation Diversity Statements? (with Mickey Inzlicht)
Mickey is back and fired up about citation diversity statements. We talk about a recent editorial from Nature Reviews Psychology encouraging authors to include a "citation diversity statement" in thei...Show More
3) Episode 124: Civic Honesty Around the Globe (with David Tannenbaum)
David Tannenbaum (Associate Professor of Management at the University of Utah) joins the show to talk about one of Yoel's favorite papers: a massive field study of honesty in 40 countries that had som...Show More
4) Episode 123: RE-RELEASE: What are Teachers Good For? (with Paul Bloom)
This is a re-release of Episode 95, which was recorded in September 2023. Paul Bloom joins Yoel and Alexa to talk about the glamour and humiliation of teaching psychology at the college level. They d...Show More
5) Episode 122: When to Quit (with Paul Bloom)
Paul Bloom takes over the show to interview Yoel about loss of faith: when to give up on a theory, and which of his own findings he no longer believes. But it's not all doom and gloom! They also talk ...Show More
6) Episode 121: A New Paradigm for Psychology?
Yoel is joined by a mysterious pseudonymous duo called Slime Mold Time Mold, who are proposing a new paradigm for psychology based on principles from cybernetics. This means thinking of the behavior a...Show More
7) Episode 120: Transparent Replications (with Spencer Greenberg)
Returning guest Spencer Greenberg joins the show to talk replications, what psychologist think of terror management theory (and other controversial topics), and a machine-learning tool he developed to...Show More
8) Episode 119: The Future of DEI in Higher Ed (with Amori Mikami)
It's been a tumultuous time for DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) efforts in higher education. Whether due to political pressure, internal arguments, or both, many prominent institutions are reva...Show More
9) Episode 118: Do We Have a Purity Problem? (with David Pizarro)
Arguably, the last 25 years of moral psychology have been about people's judgments of "purity violations"--ostensibly harmless acts that "are disgusting or degrading to one’s spiritual nature." From s...Show More
10) Episode 117: Good News for the Chronics (with Mickey Inzlicht)
On-again off-again co-host Mickey Inzlicht joins the show to debrief about the recent SPSP (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) conference. We then dissect a new paper purporting to show wo...Show More