Episode 088 - Psychology

This month we’re discussing Psychology! We discuss psychedelics, rodent-based experiments, citations and footnotes, and books that turn out to be not what we expected. Plus: Why some of us don’t eat cephalopods! 

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Amanda Wanner

Things We Read

How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan Not the Monty Python guy, that’s Michael Palin Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor and Michelle Hamilton How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays by Mandy Len Catron To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This (New York Times article) Quirkology: The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives by Richard Wiseman How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do by Stanley Coren Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith  The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

Other Media We Mention

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee  The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances by Matthew Inman What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

Links, Articles, and Things

Episode 041 - Dystopian Fiction Oliver Sacks (Wikipedia) Michael Murray (Google Scholar) - Matthew’s dad Jean Piaget (Wikipedia) XKCD - Purity - "sociology is just applied psychology"  SF Masterworks (Wikipedia) - The ones with yellow covers

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