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 working memory deficits in heavy cannabis users, including a deep dive into the preregistration. Finally, we discuss a recent Op-Ed in the Guardian that argues that research on AI empathy is fatally flawed.

Links:

• Brain Function Outcomes of Recent and Lifetime Cannabis Use | Child Development | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network
• OSF Registries | Verbal Memory and Language Processing in Young Adults who Use Cannabis: An Analysis of the Human Connectome Project
• AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett | The Guardian
• Tunde Adebimpe - Magnetic (Official Video) - YouTube