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...