Two Psychologists Four Beers

Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett

Two psychologists endeavor to drink four beers while discussing news and controversies in science, academia, and beyond.

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Aug 3, 2022 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 92: Should SPSP Stay Out of It?
Alexa and Yoel discuss the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's (SPSP's) recent efforts to organize a more anti-racist and politically engaged conference. The co-hosts consider the debate around boycotting Georgia, as well as SPSP's new evaluation criteria that reward equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in submissions.
Jul 20, 2022 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 91: Decriminalizing Mental Illness
Alexa and Yoel are joined by Jennifer Cox and Lauren Kois, co-directors of the Southern Behavioral Health and Law Initiative. They discuss ways that those with mental illness face unique challenges within the legal system, and explain how their work pushes for a shift away from criminalization and towards more comprehensive mental health support.
Jul 6, 2022 · 1 hr 26 min
Episode 90: Freelance Kinkology (with Aella)
Alexa and Yoel chat with Twitter pollster and freelance social scientist Aella. Their conversation raises some deep and perplexing questions: What experiences predict interest in BDSM? How do you know if you're truly open to being wrong? And are there some questions that shouldn't be asked?
Jun 22, 2022 · 1 hr 23 min
Episode 89: What's Wrong with Social Media?
Mickey returns to join Alexa and Yoel in a discussion of the evils of social media (or lack thereof). The three cohosts dissect two articles - one by Haidt and another by Orben and Przybylski - in an effort to decide whether social media poses a serious threat to our well-being.
Jun 8, 2022 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 88: Many Many Labs
Alexa and Yoel discuss what they've learned from Many Labs 1 through 5. They consider how these multi-lab replication projects have demonstrated, time and time again, the value of replication to the scientific enterprise.
May 18, 2022 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 87: The Distracting Nature of Nudges
"Nudging" has received attention as a way to achieve broad societal change by promoting small, individual adjustments, like recycling, or counting our steps. Yoel and Alexa consider Chater and Loewenstein's claim that nudging fails by distracting us from more fruitful system-level change.
May 1, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min
Episode 86: A Face For Podcasting
Yoel and Alexa discuss a study that examines how people infer traits from facial features. They consider various criticisms of the work, and evaluate whether the benefits outweigh the risks.
Apr 20, 2022 · 1 hr 7 min
Episode 85: People Dealing With the Pandemic Pretty Well, Study Finds
Alexa and Yoel discuss an NPR article and APA report examining stress and decision-making during the pandemic. In the process, they consider how the original data is eventually shaped into a pop-psych-friendly narrative.
Apr 6, 2022 · 1 hr 8 min
Episode 84: Check Your Values?
Alexa and Yoel debate whether or not science should be value free. They consider whether such a scenario would be possible or desirable, and how well it describes contemporary social psychology
Mar 23, 2022 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 83: Grand Challenges
Yoel and Alexa respond to an APS survey identifying the "grand challenges" of psychological science. They consider whether they agree with the list - which includes diversity, theory building, and science communication - and how likely psychology is to make progress.
Mar 9, 2022 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 82: Psychology Worth Knowing
We each list the top three social psychological effects that have the most potential to improve people's daily lives. And, we consider why they might not be having the impact they could.
Feb 23, 2022 · 1 hr 10 min
Episode 81: Against Retribution
Alexa and Yoel discuss a recent article, solo-authored by Alexa, that argues for abandoning retribution as a goal of the criminal justice system. In the article, Alexa claims that "who is blameworthy?" is a question for the social sciences, but one they're ill-equipped to answer.
Feb 9, 2022 · 1 hr 26 min
Episode 80: The C-Word (with Julia Rohrer)
Personality psychologist and methodologist Julia Rohrer joins the show to talk about causal claims, strategic ambiguity, and how tough it is to tell what empirical claims many psychology papers are making.
Jan 26, 2022 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 79: All About Authenticity
Alexa and Yoel talk authenticity. What is it? Is it good to have it? And why does Alexa score higher on it than Yoel? Plus, Alexa drinks some listener-supplied beer, with favorable results.
Jan 12, 2022 · 1 hr 8 min
Episode 78: Meehl on Theory
Alexa and Yoel do a deep dive into Paul Meehl's paper on theory evaluation, "Appraising and Amending Theories: The Strategy of Lakatosian Defense and Two Principles that Warrant It." It's a classic of methodology and philosophy of science, but what can it tell us about how to do better research?
Dec 8, 2021 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 77: Against Method?
Alexa and Yoel tackle Paul Feyerabend, the wild man of philosophy of science. What can we learn from his provocative "anything goes" argument for methodological anarchy? And, more generally, what can working scientists learn from philosophers of science?
Nov 17, 2021 · 1 hr 7 min
Episode 76: Preregistration (What is it Good For)
Alexa and Yoel talk about objections to preregistration. Does preregistration imply that researchers can't be trusted? Does it mean that they can't use their best judgment? When might preregistration be unhelpful? We also discuss how preregistration would have helped in a recent paper testing Cardi B's maxim that "hoes don't get cold."
Nov 3, 2021 · 1 hr 7 min
Episode 75: Beyond Experiments
Alexa and Yoel talk about a paper purporting to show that winning the Nobel Prize increases your lifespan. In the process, they dip their toes into non-experimental causal inference.
Oct 13, 2021 · 1 hr 24 min
Episode 74: Pleasurable Suffering (with Paul Bloom)
Paul Bloom joins us to talk about why we want to suffer. Sometimes it's a means to an end, but sometimes we desire it for its own sake. Plus, a very special extra guest host.
Sep 29, 2021 · 1 hr 22 min
Episode 73: We Need to Talk About Fraud (with Joe Simmons)
Yoel and Alexa are joined by Joe Simmons to talk about fraud in behavioral science. How common is it, how do you detect it, and what can we do to prevent it?

Two Psychologists Four Beers

Episode 92: Should SPSP Stay Out of It?

Episode 91: Decriminalizing Mental Illness

Episode 90: Freelance Kinkology (with Aella)

Episode 89: What's Wrong with Social Media?

Episode 88: Many Many Labs

Episode 87: The Distracting Nature of Nudges

Episode 86: A Face For Podcasting

Episode 85: People Dealing With the Pandemic Pretty Well, Study Finds

Episode 84: Check Your Values?

Episode 83: Grand Challenges

Episode 82: Psychology Worth Knowing

Episode 81: Against Retribution

Episode 80: The C-Word (with Julia Rohrer)

Episode 79: All About Authenticity

Episode 78: Meehl on Theory

Episode 77: Against Method?

Episode 76: Preregistration (What is it Good For)

Episode 75: Beyond Experiments

Episode 74: Pleasurable Suffering (with Paul Bloom)

Episode 73: We Need to Talk About Fraud (with Joe Simmons)