Nov 27, 2018
This episode features:
-Can political symbols change political beliefs?
-What makes pseudoscience appealing
-How to evaluate futurism
-How do chronically accessible concepts change our perception
-How to think about the complexity of theories
-Priming: fact or fiction?
-Can barely-noticeable changes in the environment...
Nov 13, 2018
This episode features:
-Are smart phones causing young people to be more lonely and depressed
-How can the supplement industry stay afloat if so many supplements are useless
-Discussion of how a paper on psychic powers got published in a top psychology journal
-Why people are often less incompetent than you think
-Why...
Oct 30, 2018
This episode features:
-A quiz to test your intuitions about which studies replicate and which don’t
-An effective altruist origin story
-Heuristics for evaluating scientific research
-The role of incentives in the replication crisis
-What should your prior be for whether research will replicate
-Which subfield of...
Oct 16, 2018
This episode features:
-Why breakups are always the other person’s fault
-Why does love cause us to see our partner as better than they really are
-How much do people lie
-What do people lie about in their online dating profile
-Is it possible to detect lies
-What traits make somebody likable vs unlikable
-How do we...
Oct 2, 2018
This episode features:
-Why men perceive more sexuality in women’s behavior than women say they intend
-Several opportunities to test your own biases
-Examples of how both evolutionary psychologists and social psychologists have explained bias the wrong way
-Why it’s unsatisfactory to say that we have false beliefs...