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Why Psychology is Worthless: Super-Duper Extra Special Bonus Final Episode (with Daniël Lakens & Smriti Mehta)
Dec 13, 2024
1h 07m 28s
Final Final Final Comments
Nov 5, 2024
1h 10m 10s
Final Final Comments!
Nov 3, 2023
1h 02m 24s
Final Comments!
May 11, 2023
54m 44s
Letting the Chat Out of the Bag (with Alex Kogan and Luke Hartman)
Mar 3, 2023
1h 33m 16s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 12/13/24 | Why Psychology is Worthless: Super-Duper Extra Special Bonus Final Episode (with Daniël Lakens & Smriti Mehta) | OK, we may have a problem. Here, in this, our fourth attempt at a final episode, we welcome our friends from the excellent Nullius In Verba podcast Daniël Lakens and Smriti Mehta (yes THAT Smriti Mehta) to discuss why psychology is worthless. Or whether psychology is worthless. Something like that. Anyway, enjoy! This is the last one for sure... | 1h 07m 28s | ||||||
| 11/5/24 | Final Final Final Comments | Rachel had a baby! Paul left academia! It is all happening and we have the world exclusive scoop for you dear listeners in this ultra special super secret extra extra final episode of MOACTAQ. | 1h 10m 10s | ||||||
| 11/3/23 | Final Final Comments! | Super top secret bonus episode because Paul misses Rachel and because we can do what we want you're not the boss of us. | 1h 02m 24s | ||||||
| 5/11/23 | Final Comments! | Rachel is leaving academia, and Paul is moving on to a new career stage, so we've decided to put the pod to rest. In this, our last pod, we make some final comments and send out some final thankyous as we cast MOACTAQ gently down the river. Be well, everyone. If you'd like to keep in touch you can contact us at: rachelxhartman@gmail.com, Twitter: @RachelXHartman paulrobertconnor@gmail.com, Twitter: @paulrconnor | 54m 44s | ||||||
| 3/3/23 | Letting the Chat Out of the Bag (with Alex Kogan and Luke Hartman) | Like almost everyone else, we are impressed and a little freaked out by recent advances in AI, particularly in the context of large language models like ChatGPT, so we invited our most AI-obsessed friends and family members (Luke Hartman from Tumult Labs Alex Kogan of Scholar Exchange) on the pod to talk about it. If you missed Alex's back story here's his wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kogan_(scientist) And here's a link to Luke's app top topic: https://www.topto... | 1h 33m 16s | ||||||
| 1/8/23 | Waste Management (with Daniël Lakens) | We chatted with Professor Daniël Lakens from TU Eindhoven about his recent proposal for universities to require scientists to submit their proposed research to methodological review boards before data collection. Read Daniël's proposal here And check out the recent PNAS on the surprising generalizability of results from non-representative samples here | 1h 30m 02s | ||||||
| 10/12/22 | The Rath of Steve (with Steve Rathje) | In this episode we were joined by Steve Rathje, a postdoc at NYU, to discuss his research on how intergroup animosity drives virality on social media. Read Steve's work here, Facebook's response here, and Steve's response to the response here. | 50m 24s | ||||||
| 9/25/22 | Should scientists be activists? (with Annalisa Myer & Carlos Rebollar) | We were joined by Annalisa Myer, a grad student from CUNY graduate center, and Carlos Rebollar, lab manager of the Deepest Beliefs lab at UNC, to discuss mixing activism and science, and whether Carlos should go to grad school. The 80,000 hours website Rachel mentioned is here Jennifer Eberhart's book 'Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do' is here | 1h 38m 12s | ||||||
| 9/11/22 | Science is Dead, Long Live Science! (With Stuart Ritchie) | We chatted with Professor Stuart Ritchie from Kings College London about the Queen's passing and the journal Nature Human Behaviour's plans to protect the world from harmful scientific findings. Follow Stuart on his substack or twitterRead about Nature Human Behaviour's new ethical guidelines here | 1h 05m 16s | ||||||
| 8/26/22 | Gill-Gate! | In this episode we discuss academic Twitter's enfant terrible Tim Gill, and wade into some complex questions considering the Safe Faculty Project and student loan forgiveness. Follow Professor Gill (at your own risk) here: https://twitter.com/timgill924 Check out the Safe Faculty Project here: https://www.safefacultyproject.org/about | 1h 24m 38s | ||||||
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| 8/14/22 | Catastrophe!: How Good People Make Bad Podcasts (with Chris Ferguson) | We were joined by Professor Chris Ferguson of Stetson University to discuss his upcoming new book 'Catastrophe!: How Psychology Explains Why Good People Make Bad Situations Worse' and whether Paul can join his Dungeons and Dragons game. Thankfully we (mostly) avoided discussing *that* Qualitative Research paper. | 1h 30m 06s | ||||||
| 7/31/22 | Littrell Violence (with Shane Littrell) | We welcome University of Miami postdoc Shane Littrell on the pod to discuss his research on bullshitting, Paul's pretentious website, and Thomas Chatterton Williams' bad week online. Find out more about Shane's research on his website here | 1h 36m 33s | ||||||
| 7/18/22 | Meet the Tokker (with Ethan Milne) | In this episode we welcome marketing graduate student and TikTok celebrity Ethan Milne onto the podcast to talk about his social media fame, his research, an interesting incident at his Western University, the concept of 'elite capture,' and more. Follow Ethan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SEthanMilne and on TikTok at https://www.tiktok.com/@tallpsychology?lang=en The hijab kiss incident: https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/western-university-lgbtq-poster-sparks-muslim-community-backla... | 2h 04m 08s | ||||||
| 5/31/22 | The Guns Episode | We discuss gun violence and mass shootings in the USA, as well as the debate around 'Great Replacement Theory.' Links: Cloud Research's Innovations in Online Research Conference: link Tweet thread from Professor Geoffrey Miller on gun control | 1h 23m 38s | ||||||
| 5/14/22 | The Abortion Episode | We discuss the moral philosophy of abortion, and make a few comments about the public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Roe v Wade decision. Here's some data on the stability of public attitudes toward abortion since the 70s: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx And here's some data about the relative prevalence of bi-sexuality and homosexuality: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/how-many-people-lgbt/ | 1h 22m 04s | ||||||
| 4/29/22 | AI Stereotyping Gate! or: The First Yoel (Inbar appearance on the pod) | In this episode we are joined by famous podcaster Yoel Inbar (who we also found out is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto) to discuss a recent controversy surrounding this paper in PNAS, and the ethics of training machine learning models to judge and modify facial images in ways consistent with the stereotypical impressions of humans. We also briefly discussed the dumb stick-figure meme people have been talking about. Here are just a few pieces of research on peopl... | 1h 16m 24s | ||||||
| 4/16/22 | Corygate II: The Interview (with Cory Clark) | We were joined by Cory Clark, director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project and visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss her research on ideological bias in science, adversarial collaboration, cheerleading, powerpoint, and more. Follow Cory on twitter here: https://twitter.com/ImHardcory Check out the Adversarial Collaboration Project here: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/adcollabproject/ | 1h 26m 34s | ||||||
| 4/5/22 | Turking Class Man (with Aaron Moss) | We chatted with Aaron Moss, senior researcher at Cloud Research, about his recent paper on the ethics of using MTurk for behavioral research, conflicts of interest, global capitalism, and Will Smith. Read Aaron's paper here https://psyarxiv.com/jbc9d/ Check out Cloud Research here https://www.cloudresearch.com/ | 1h 36m 48s | ||||||
| 3/21/22 | Katie's Jaeger Bomb (with Katie Herzog) | We were joined by journalist and podcaster Katie Herzog to discuss her recent piece about an academic #metoo scandal that was not what it seemed. You can read Katie's piece here: https://reason.com/2022/03/14/how-an-academic-grudge-turned-into-a-metoo-panic/ and listen to the BARpod episode about it here: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-106-possibly-the-craziest?s=r Follow Katie on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog Pinned threads by the claimants: Jessica Cantlon: ... | 1h 15m 36s | ||||||
| 2/14/22 | Look for the Alpers (with Sinan Alper) | In this episode we are joined by Sinan Alper, a professor of Psychology at Yaşar University in Turkey, to discuss psychological research in non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) contexts, and his work on the antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Follow Sinan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SinanAlper_ Some references: 1. Paper showing people holding contradictory conspiracy beliefs (e.g. Princess Diana was assassinated but is nonethele... | 1h 23m 18s | ||||||
| 1/23/22 | Listserv-gate! And Rittenhouse-gate: a reprise! | In this episode we respond to a disgruntled listener's critiques of our previous Rittenhouse-gate! episode, and discuss a controversial proposal on the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) listserv to form a group of non-oppressed oppression researchers. Links: Statement by graduate students of color at UNC concerning the pervasiveness of racism in the UNC psychology department: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L6J6Ee58JM338Fu89it_iKECeWdFWwSX60W6T3eC1r8/edit A list of ... | 1h 58m 16s | ||||||
| 1/15/22 | Rittenhouse-gate! (with Paul Cernasov) | In this episode we are joined by Paul Cernasov, a graduate student of clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina, to discuss a controversy within the UNC psychology department following an official email sent out to the department regarding the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. Here is the study Paul mentioned with regard to anti-Asian racism: https://virulenthate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Virulent-Hate-Anti-Asian-Racism-In-2020-5.17.21.pdf | 1h 17m 18s | ||||||
| 12/28/21 | How the MIT have fallen (with Dorian Abbot) | In this episode we talked with Professor Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist from the University of Chicago whose views on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) led to the cancellation of a public lecture he was scheduled to give at MIT this autumn. We discuss how Professor Abbot gradually became concerned enough about what he saw happening at his institution with regard to DEI that he felt compelled to raise a dissenting voice concerning on affirmative action and academic freedom. Here i... | 1h 12m 40s | ||||||
| 12/17/21 | Social Thominance Theory (with Thomas Costello) | On this episode we are joined by Thomas Costello, a PhD candidate at Emory University, to discuss his work on the fascinating but under-studied construct of Left-Wing Authoritarianism. You can find Tom on twitter at https://twitter.com/tomstello_ and read more about his work at https://www.thcostello.com/ | 1h 12m 48s | ||||||
| 12/4/21 | Berea's 'Dave Reckoning' (with Dave Porter) | In this episode we are joined by air force veteran and 'professor in exile' Dave Porter to discuss the series of events that culminated in his termination from Berea College, Kentucky, and his ongoing lawsuit against the college alleging that Berea violated his and his students' academic freedom. Some more background on Dave's story can be found here: https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/07/why-did-a-christian-college-fire-a-tenured-professor/ A letter in support of Dave published by the ... | 1h 53m 56s | ||||||
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