Everything Hertz 19: Let us spray: oxytocin and spirituality
Jul 6, 2016
47:24
Dan and James discuss a recent paper on intranasal oxytocin and spirituality
Some of the topics discussed:
- A summary of a recent paper on oxytocin and spirituality
- Why within-subject designs are a better choice for oxytocin research
- The physiology of nasal administration
- How do you control for differences in nasal environment
- Hypothesis-driven vs. exploratory research
- Oxytocin pathway gene
- ANCOVA and Lord's paradox (yep, it's called that)
- Dan applauding the authors for posting ALL their data online
- James disagrees with Dan on approaches to pre-registering studies
- James promises never to chew during a recording (sorry!)
- Producing research vs. actually reading other people's research
- Our first citation (sort of)
- How the replication crisis is the fact that we're not doing any
- Heart rate variability in oysters (and other animals)
Links
- The paper
http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/22/scan.nsw078
- Dan's blog post on intranasal oxytocin administration considerations
https://medium.com/@dsquintana/intranasal-drug-administration-in-psychiatry-80d076f1abdd#.dsdrrohdu
- Dan's paper on the promise and pitfalls of intranasal administration
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552590
- The data from the paper
- Our first (blog post) citation
https://rhythmicpsychology.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/shock-shock-horror-horror/
- Can we replicate the replication crisis?
https://theconversation.com/is-psychology-really-in-crisis-60869
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