"I love everything about this. I remember the robbers cave experiment where like at the end of it, they were like, they pretended the bus had a problem," he says. "What's lovely about it to me is there's so much throwing your hands in the air on Twitter and Facebook and even TikTok." 'We've gotten to bonkers and partisan,' Heineken adds.'This is also a really important way for science to move forward.'
In this episode we sit down with NYU psychologist Jay Van Bavel who is very good at Twitter. His feed is always overflowing with the absolute latest and greatest research from psychology with links to papers as they come out – on many of the topics we so often explore on this podcast – and in this episode we discuss ten of those tweets and the research he’s shared.