Two Psychologists Four Beers

Psychologist Gordon Pennycook joins the show to talk bullshit and misinformation. What is bullshit, and why do some people fall for it more than others? Why does misinformation spread so readily, and what can be done to stop it? Plus: Yoel asks some perfectly reasonable questions about COVID's origins, and Mickey indulges in some Canadian content.Special Guest: Gordon Pennycook.Links:Voodoo Ranger IPA | New Belgium BrewingBeer – Bellwoods BreweryPrairie Blonde - Paddock Wood Brewing Co. - UntappdHome - Pabst Blue Ribbon : Pabst Blue RibbonLive Transmission Milkshake IPA | Flying Monkeys Craft BrewerySpaten | LCBOAn analysis of the Canadian cognitive psychology job market (2006-2016) - PubMedResearch note: Examining false beliefs about voter fraud in the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election | HKS Misinformation Review11 famous GordonsOn Bullshit: Amazon.com: BooksIt's A Good Life if you Don't Weaken - In Violet Light - The Tragically Hip - YouTube

Mickey and Yoel follow up on two recent episodes ("Against Academia?" and "Racism and Sexism on Campus"). Then they review some of the less-bad aspects of 2020 and recommend some things that got them through a challenging year. Plus: what 80s band was Mickey the #1 fan of?Links:Disco Soleil | Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! Alouette 1 Galaxy IPA - Dominion City Brewing Co. - UntappdRevival Hour Saison – Dominion City Brewing Co.flotsam on TwitterActually Against AcademiaNature Communications retracts much-criticized paper on mentorship – Retraction WatchBlocked and ReportedBig Mouth - IMDbI May Destroy You - IMDbThe Queen's Gambit - IMDbThe Expanse - IMDbKingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder: Kaufman, Kenn: 9780618709403: Amazon.com: BooksThe WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous: Henrich, Joseph: 9780374173227: Amazon.com: BooksAmazon.com: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) (9781338635171): Collins, Suzanne: Books1Q84 (Vintage International): Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip ­Gabriel: 9780307476463: Amazon.com: BooksAndrew Bird - Greenwine (Official Audio) - YouTube

Psychologist Katie Kinzler joins the show to talk language. How do children and adults make judgments about people based on how they talk? Is there a "bilingual advantage"? And does Mickey sound Canadian? Bonus: When deciding whether to go to grad school, should you not do what Katie did?Special Guest: Katherine (Katie) Kinzler.Links:Menagerie Single Hop Pale Ale – Fairweather Brewing CompanyBlueberry, Chocolate, Coffee & Vanilla - Collective Arts Brewing815 Cabernet Sauvignon - Joel Gott WinesBourbon | Knob Creek® Bourbon WhiskeyOnce a French Speaker, Always a French Speaker? — Once a French Speaker, Always a French Speaker? Bilingual Children’s Thinking About the Stability of LanguageHow You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do―And What It Says About You: Kinzler, Katherine D.: 9780544986558: Amazon.com: Books

Repeat guest Anne Wilson joins the show to talk about two recent papers about bias in psychology and on campus. Is gender and racial bias pervasive? Or are things better than many of us might think? We also discuss the recent "female mentorship" paper that's been causing quite the hubbub.Special Guest: Anne Wilson.Links:KEG DEALS & KICK BACKS - AMARILLO & EL DORADO • 355 ML 4-PACK – Blood Brothers BrewingElora Borealis — Elora Brewing CompanySurround Sound: Lotus - Collective Arts BrewingBreakaway IPA - Fixed Gear Brewing CompanyIPA 15 | Collective Arts BrewingThe Future of Women in Psychological ScienceParenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor: Evidence from the groves of academe - ScienceDirectFor Female Scientists, There's No Good Time to Have Children - The AtlanticThe association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance | Nature CommunicationsFlawed Data and Unjustified Conclusions Cannot Elevate the Status of Women in ScienceIs discrimination widespread? Testing assumptions about bias on a university campus. - PsycNETExposure to peers’ pro-diversity attitudes increases inclusion and reduces the achievement gap | Nature Human BehaviourCognitive costs of exposure to racial prejudice - PubMedTaylor Swift - The Man (Official Video) - YouTube

Mickey and Yoel tackle the pros and cons of academia. As an academic, is it taboo to say you love your job? How hard do we work anyway? If we ran the world, how would we change academic hiring? Also: why do reporters call us and ask us for our opinion?Links:Grapefruit and Elderflower - Collective Arts BrewingChanging demographics of scientific careers: The rise of the temporary workforce | PNASThe path to professorship by the numbers and why mentorship matters | Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature ResearchSystematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks | Science AdvancesWant to Be a ‘Volunteer Adjunct’? Southern Illinois U. Is HiringCollege faculty still far less diverse than students in race, ethnicity | Pew Research CenterFive Years of Tech Diversity Reports—and Little Progress | WIREDThough more women are on college campuses, climbing the professor ladder remains a challengeNew study analyzes how faculty pay compares worldwideSylvan Esso - Ferris Wheel

Psychologist Michael McCullough joins the show to talk forgiveness, punishment, and how we came to care about the welfare of people we don't know. Also: a listener calls out our dubious math.Special Guest: Michael McCullough.Sponsored By:The Great Courses Plus: The Great Courses Plus is a Video-On-Demand service brought to you by The Great Courses – the leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment. With thousands of in-depth videos taught by the world’s greatest professors, you’ll always have something fascinating to learn about. Promo Code: BEERSLinks:Broad Reach - Stonehooker Brewing CompanyStone IPA | Stone BrewingMegadeth BeerTorpedo - Citrus, Pine & Floral IPA | Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.Tuesday - Burdock - UntappdMichael McCulloughThe Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral CodeMaxence Cyrin - Where is my mind

Psychologist and author Maria Konnikova joins the show to talk poker, life, and what one teaches you about the other. She talks with us about working with Walter Mischel as a graduate student, her decision to leave the academic track to become an author, and her latest book, The Biggest Bluff, in which she describes how she became a tournament-winning professional poker player. Bonus: who will win our round of Lodden Thinks?Special Guest: Maria Konnikova.Sponsored By:The Great Courses Plus: The Great Courses Plus is a Video-On-Demand service brought to you by The Great Courses – the leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment. With thousands of in-depth videos taught by the world’s greatest professors, you’ll always have something fascinating to learn about. Promo Code: BEERSLinks:E.H. Taylor, Jr. BourbonÉPHÉMÈRE SEA BUCKTHORN BERRY | UnibroueMichael Inzlicht (@minzlicht) / TwitterMaria KonnikovaThe Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win: Konnikova, Maria: 9780525522621: Amazon.com: BooksSupermarket Sweep - YouTube

Yoel and Mickey interview one of the most influential social scientists of our generation, Harvard University's Joe Henrich. Why are people from the West so peculiar, so different from other people the world over? What led the West to be particularly prosperous? If not intelligence, what marks humans as so special? What are the various approaches to the evolutionary study of human behaviour? Does psychology suffer from a theory crisis? Has religion been a net plus to the survival of human groups? Bonus: Who is lazier, psychologists or economists?Special Guest: Joe Henrich.Sponsored By:The Great Courses Plus: The Great Courses Plus is a Video-On-Demand service brought to you by The Great Courses – the leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment. With thousands of in-depth videos taught by the world’s greatest professors, you’ll always have something fascinating to learn about. Promo Code: BEERSLinks:Whale's Tale IPA | Cisco BrewersJelly King (Mango/Passionfruit) – Bellwoods BreweryPerpetual IPA - Tröegs Independent BrewingWhy Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory - The New York TimesWEIRDest People in the World | Joe HenrichThe weirdest people in the world?The cultural evolution of prosocial religionsA problem in theory | Nature Human BehaviourComplex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history | NatureThe Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter | Joe HenrichKid Cudi - Just What I Am ft. King Chip - YouTube

Robb Willer and Simine Vazire join the podcast to debate whether social science, in its current form, can usefully contribute to our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Is psychology ready to give trustworthy advice to policy-makers? Plus: Yoel shirks his beer-drinking, yet again.Special Guests: Robb Willer and Simine Vazire.Sponsored By:The Great Courses Plus: The Great Courses Plus is a Video-On-Demand service brought to you by The Great Courses – the leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment. With thousands of in-depth videos taught by the world’s greatest professors, you’ll always have something fascinating to learn about. Promo Code: BEERSLinks:GRIFTER PALE --The Grifter Brewing CoRoyal Canadian MeadUsing social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response | Nature Human BehaviourIs Social and Behavioural Science Evidence Ready for Application and Dissemination?PsyArXiv Preprints | Where Are The Self-Correcting Mechanisms In Science?

Yoel and Mickey welcome Neil Lewis, Jr. of Cornell University to the podcast. Is psychology ready to be applied to help the response to the COVID-19 pandemic? What are the opportunity costs of applying a psychological intervention? How does Neil navigate Twitter so effectively? What will Neil be doing over at FiveThirtyEight? What can meta-analyses and registered reports tell us about stereotype threat? Bonus: How is Mickey like Jesus?Special Guest: Neil Lewis, Jr..Links:How To Make a Gin Basil SmashSucker Punch | doubletroublebrewing.comHazeMama - Great Lakes BreweryHow many (and whose) lives would you bet on your theory?PsyArXiv Preprints | Is Social and Behavioural Science Evidence Ready for Application and Dissemination?Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response | Nature Human BehaviourWhat I've learned about being a Black scientist | Science | AAASArlo Parks - Cola (Official Music Video) - YouTube