More of a Comment Than a Question
73 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago -A podcast about psychology, academia, culture, and politics, hosted by Rachel Hartman and Paul Connor.
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Final Final Comments!
November 03, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBSuper top secret bonus episode because Paul misses Rachel and because we can do what we want you're not the boss of us.
Final Comments!
May 11, 2023 15:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBRachel is leaving academia, and Paul is moving on to a new career stage, so we've decided to put the pod to rest. In this, our last pod, we make some final comments and send out some final thankyous as we cast MOACTAQ gently down the river. Be well, everyone. If you'd like to keep in touch you can contact us at: [email protected], Twitter: @RachelXHartman [email protected], Twitter: @paulrconnor
Letting the Chat Out of the Bag (with Alex Kogan and Luke Hartman)
March 03, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBLike almost everyone else, we are impressed and a little freaked out by recent advances in AI, particularly in the context of large language models like ChatGPT, so we invited our most AI-obsessed friends and family members (Luke Hartman from Tumult Labs Alex Kogan of Scholar Exchange) on the pod to talk about it. If you missed Alex's back story here's his wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kogan_(scientist) And here's a link to Luke's app top topic: https://www.topt...
Waste Management (with Daniël Lakens)
January 08, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBWe chatted with Professor Daniël Lakens from TU Eindhoven about his recent proposal for universities to require scientists to submit their proposed research to methodological review boards before data collection. Read Daniël's proposal here And check out the recent PNAS on the surprising generalizability of results from non-representative samples here
The Rath of Steve (with Steve Rathje)
October 12, 2022 03:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBIn this episode we were joined by Steve Rathje, a postdoc at NYU, to discuss his research on how intergroup animosity drives virality on social media. Read Steve's work here, Facebook's response here, and Steve's response to the response here.
Should scientists be activists? (with Annalisa Myer & Carlos Rebollar)
September 25, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBWe were joined by Annalisa Myer, a grad student from CUNY graduate center, and Carlos Rebollar, lab manager of the Deepest Beliefs lab at UNC, to discuss mixing activism and science, and whether Carlos should go to grad school. The 80,000 hours website Rachel mentioned is here Jennifer Eberhart's book 'Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do' is here
Should scientists be activists?
September 25, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBWe were joined by Annalisa Myer, a grad student from CUNY graduate center, and Carlos Rebollar, lab manager of the Deepest Beliefs lab at UNC, to discuss mixing activism and science, and whether Carlos should go to grad school. The 80,000 hours website Rachel mentioned is here Jennifer Eberhart's book 'Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do' is here
Science is Dead, Long Live Science! (With Stuart Ritchie)
September 11, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBWe chatted with Professor Stuart Ritchie from Kings College London about the Queen's passing and the journal Nature Human Behaviour's plans to protect the world from harmful scientific findings. Follow Stuart on his substack or twitter Read about Nature Human Behaviour's new ethical guidelines here
Gill-Gate!
August 26, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBIn this episode we discuss academic Twitter's enfant terrible Tim Gill, and wade into some complex questions considering the Safe Faculty Project and student loan forgiveness. Follow Professor Gill (at your own risk) here: https://twitter.com/timgill924 Check out the Safe Faculty Project here: https://www.safefacultyproject.org/about
Gill-Gate!
August 26, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBIn this episode we discuss academic Twitter's enfant terrible Tim Gill, and wade into some complex questions considering the Safe Faculty Project and student loan forgiveness. Follow Professor Gill (at your own risk) here: https://twitter.com/timgill924 Check out the Safe Faculty Project here: https://www.safefacultyproject.org/about
Catastrophe!: How Good People Make Bad Podcasts (with Chris Ferguson)
August 14, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBWe were joined by Professor Chris Ferguson of Stetson University to discuss his upcoming new book 'Catastrophe!: How Psychology Explains Why Good People Make Bad Situations Worse' and whether Paul can join his Dungeons and Dragons game. Thankfully we (mostly) avoided discussing *that* Qualitative Research paper.
Littrell Violence (with Shane Littrell)
July 31, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBWe welcome University of Miami postdoc Shane Littrell on the pod to discuss his research on bullshitting, Paul's pretentious website, and Thomas Chatterton Williams' bad week online. Find out more about Shane's research on his website here
Meet the Tokker (with Ethan Milne)
July 18, 2022 02:00 - 2 hours - 85.3 MBIn this episode we welcome marketing graduate student and TikTok celebrity Ethan Milne onto the podcast to talk about his social media fame, his research, an interesting incident at his Western University, the concept of 'elite capture,' and more. Follow Ethan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SEthanMilne and on TikTok at https://www.tiktok.com/@tallpsychology?lang=en The hijab kiss incident: https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/western-university-lgbtq-poster-sparks-muslim-community-backl...
The Guns Episode
May 31, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBWe discuss gun violence and mass shootings in the USA, as well as the debate around 'Great Replacement Theory.' Links: Cloud Research's Innovations in Online Research Conference: link Tweet thread from Professor Geoffrey Miller on gun control
The Abortion Episode
May 14, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBWe discuss the moral philosophy of abortion, and make a few comments about the public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Roe v Wade decision. Here's some data on the stability of public attitudes toward abortion since the 70s: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx And here's some data about the relative prevalence of bi-sexuality and homosexuality: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/how-many-people-lgbt/
AI Stereotyping Gate! or: The First Yoel (Inbar appearance on the pod)
April 29, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBIn this episode we are joined by famous podcaster Yoel Inbar (who we also found out is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto) to discuss a recent controversy surrounding this paper in PNAS, and the ethics of training machine learning models to judge and modify facial images in ways consistent with the stereotypical impressions of humans. We also briefly discussed the dumb stick-figure meme people have been talking about. Here are just a few pieces of research on people's ...
Corygate II: The Interview (with Cory Clark)
April 16, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBWe were joined by Cory Clark, director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project and visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss her research on ideological bias in science, adversarial collaboration, cheerleading, powerpoint, and more. Follow Cory on twitter here: https://twitter.com/ImHardcory Check out the Adversarial Collaboration Project here: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/adcollabproject/
Turking Class Man (with Aaron Moss)
April 05, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBWe chatted with Aaron Moss, senior researcher at Cloud Research, about his recent paper on the ethics of using MTurk for behavioral research, conflicts of interest, global capitalism, and Will Smith. Read Aaron's paper here https://psyarxiv.com/jbc9d/ Check out Cloud Research here https://www.cloudresearch.com/
Katie's Jaeger Bomb (with Katie Herzog)
March 21, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBWe were joined by journalist and podcaster Katie Herzog to discuss her recent piece about an academic #metoo scandal that was not what it seemed. You can read Katie's piece here: https://reason.com/2022/03/14/how-an-academic-grudge-turned-into-a-metoo-panic/ and listen to the BARpod episode about it here: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-106-possibly-the-craziest?s=r Follow Katie on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog Pinned threads by the claimants: Jessica Cantlon:...
Getting Specific About Prolific (with Ekaterina Damer)
February 28, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 66 MBIn this episode we were joined by Ekaterina Damer, co-founder of the data collection website Prolific (https://www.prolific.co/) to discuss the numerous challenges involved in staring the company, online data collection, and international expansion. Rachel also went to bat for her employer Cloud Research (https://www.cloudresearch.com/) when discussing some recent research comparing data quality across multiple different platforms (https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-021-01694-3...
Look for the Alpers (with Sinan Alper)
February 14, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBIn this episode we are joined by Sinan Alper, a professor of Psychology at Yaşar University in Turkey, to discuss psychological research in non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) contexts, and his work on the antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Follow Sinan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SinanAlper_ Some references: 1. Paper showing people holding contradictory conspiracy beliefs (e.g. Princess Diana was assassinated but is nonethel...
Listserv-gate! And Rittenhouse-gate: a reprise!
January 23, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 81.2 MBIn this episode we respond to a disgruntled listener's critiques of our previous Rittenhouse-gate! episode, and discuss a controversial proposal on the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) listserv to form a group of non-oppressed oppression researchers. Links: Statement by graduate students of color at UNC concerning the pervasiveness of racism in the UNC psychology department: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L6J6Ee58JM338Fu89it_iKECeWdFWwSX60W6T3eC1r8/edit A list of...
Rittenhouse-gate! (with Paul Cernasov)
January 15, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBIn this episode we are joined by Paul Cernasov, a graduate student of clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina, to discuss a controversy within the UNC psychology department following an official email sent out to the department regarding the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. Here is the study Paul mentioned with regard to anti-Asian racism: https://virulenthate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Virulent-Hate-Anti-Asian-Racism-In-2020-5.17.21.pdf
How the MIT have fallen (with Dorian Abbot)
December 28, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBIn this episode we talked with Professor Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist from the University of Chicago whose views on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) led to the cancellation of a public lecture he was scheduled to give at MIT this autumn. We discuss how Professor Abbot gradually became concerned enough about what he saw happening at his institution with regard to DEI that he felt compelled to raise a dissenting voice concerning on affirmative action and academic freedom. Here is a ...
Social Thominance Theory (with Thomas Costello)
December 17, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 50 MBOn this episode we are joined by Thomas Costello, a PhD candidate at Emory University, to discuss his work on the fascinating but under-studied construct of Left-Wing Authoritarianism. You can find Tom on twitter at https://twitter.com/tomstello_ and read more about his work at https://www.thcostello.com/
Berea's 'Dave Reckoning' (with Dave Porter)
December 04, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBIn this episode we are joined by air force veteran and 'professor in exile' Dave Porter to discuss the series of events that culminated in his termination from Berea College, Kentucky, and his ongoing lawsuit against the college alleging that Berea violated his and his students' academic freedom. Some more background on Dave's story can be found here: https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/07/why-did-a-christian-college-fire-a-tenured-professor/ A letter in support of Dave published by the...
Hot Women-Gate! + A New University? Telos More! (With Nicole Barbaro)
November 12, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBIt's been a big week on psych twitter! Friend of the pod Nicole Barbaro returns to help us unpack all the drama surrounding the launch of Substack U (aka the University of Austin), as well as the fifty-ninth wave of the Great Tone Debate™ Here is the University of Austin's website: https://www.uaustin.org/ And here is the paper at the center of the last few days' controversy: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjso.12489
No Average Zhou
November 07, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBIn this episode we are joined by Steven Zhou, a graduate student in I-O Psychology at George Mason University, to discuss personality types. good and bad science communication, and what a healthy skepticism of academic research looks like.
No Average Zhou (with Stephen Zhou)
November 07, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBIn this episode we are joined by Steven Zhou, a graduate student in I-O Psychology at George Mason University, to discuss personality types. good and bad science communication, and what a healthy skepticism of academic research looks like.
More of a Comment on the Offensive
October 23, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBIn this episode, we try to unpack the notion of offensiveness, and discuss recent controversies at Yale and Netflix. What does it mean to find something offensive, and how should institutions handle situations in which individuals invoke the notion of offensiveness?
Are grad students overpaid?
October 08, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBIn this episode we muse about one of the least popular opinions possible for an academic to have: is it possible that grad students are actually not underpaid?
How to avoid bad grad students
September 25, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBIn this episode a microphone-less Paul and brand new co-host Rachel Hartman discuss the general weirdness that pervades academic mentorship and scientific training, and ask 'is there such a thing as a bad grad student?' Link to Project SHORT event 'Pre-Grad School - Finding the Right Program and Advisor Panel': https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-short-pre-grad-school-finding-the-right-program-advisor-panel-tickets-178209528497
Facts Don't Care About Your Felix (with Felix Cheung)
August 20, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBOn this episode I'm joined by Felix Cheung from the University of Toronto to discuss his research on population-level determinants of human well-being, why Hong Kong residents are so unhappy, and thew social scientific investigation of economic inequality. Find and follow Felix on twitter at https://twitter.com/felixckc?lang=en
TheBARPod! (with Nicole Barbaro)
July 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBNicole Barbaro of WGU Labs and Utah Valley University joins the pod to dispel all my erroneous beliefs and misunderstandings about Attachment Theory Check out Nicole's website here https://nicolebarbaro.com/ , follow her on Twitter here https://twitter.com/NicoleBarbaro?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor , and subscribe to her substack here https://nicolebarbaro.substack.com/
CRT-gate! (with Rachel Ernstoff & Manuel Galvan)
June 29, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 70 MBIn which I welcome back Rachel Ernstoff and Manuel Galvan from the University of North Carolina to discuss what everyone else seems to be discussing: Critical Race Theory (CRT), and Republicans' efforts to ban it from schools and workplaces. You can read about Raj Chetty's work on social mobility across racial and gender groups here: https://voxeu.org/article/race-and-economic-opportunity-united-states, and find evidence linking affirmative action bans to reduced incomes among Latinos here...
The Bad-Lee Needed Contrarian (with Lee Jussim)
June 13, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBI chat with Professor Lee Jussim of Rutgers University about ideological bias in science, academic freedom, social science as activism vs social science as truth seeking, and tennis.
Self MedGate-ing (with Rachel Ernstoff & Manuel Galvan)
April 18, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBI invite the amazing, intelligent, insightful Rachel Ernstoff back onto the pod to discuss 'Med-Gate,' - the court case concerning whether the University of Virginia violated the first amendment rights of expelled former UVA medical student Kieran Bhattacharya, and some more general discussion about how we should think about freedom of speech. Oh and Manuel Galvan showed up too.
Facebook-Gate! Inside the 2018 Cambridge Analytica Scandal (with Alex Kogan)
April 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBIn this episode I talk with my friend Alex Kogan (formerly Alex Spectre), the former professor of psychology from Cambridge University who was embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018. If you want to know what really happened with Cambridge Analytica, or if you've ever wondered how a happy-go-lucky pro-sociality researcher could end up crashing Facebook's market value by $100 billion dollars, this is the episode for you.
The Singal Greatest Interview (with Jesse Singal)
March 14, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBJournalist, author, and podcaster Jesse Singal joins the pod to discuss his new book 'The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills.' We also discuss some of the controversy around his work on youth gender dysphoria. Order the book online here. You can also find Jesse on the 'Blocked and Reported' podcast, the 'Singal Minded' substack, and on twitter.
Inz 'n Outs of Academia with Mickey Inzlicht
February 22, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 65 MBThis week, we chat with fellow podcaster and social psychologist Mickey Inzlicht, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and co-host of Two Psychologists Four Beer (with Yoel Inbar). We talk about the advisor-graduate student dynamic, the past and future of social psychology, the replication crisis, and discuss some of the recent Psych Academic Twitter controversies. Two Psychologists Four Beers: https://www.fourbeers.com/ Sexism and Racism on Campus (with Anne Wilson): htt...
Chris-ky Business with Christopher Ferguson
February 15, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBThis week, we talk to Christopher Ferguson, a professor of psychology at Stetson University. We talk about his new book, How Madness Shaped History, American politics, cancel culture, and political polarization. Ferguson, C. J. (2020). How madness shaped history: An eccentric array of maniacal rulers, raving narcissists, and psychotic visionaries. United States: Prometheus Books. https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_Madness_Shaped_History/K-iQDwAAQBAJ?hl=en Ryan Long: When Wokes and...
Chris-ky Business with Christopher Ferguson
February 15, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBThis week, we talk to Christopher Ferguson, a professor of psychology at Stetson University. We talk about his new book, How Madness Shaped History, American politics, cancel culture, and political polarization. Ferguson, C. J. (2020). How madness shaped history: An eccentric array of maniacal rulers, raving narcissists, and psychotic visionaries. United States: Prometheus Books. https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_Madness_Shaped_History/K-iQDwAAQBAJ?hl=en Ryan Long: When Wokes and...
Barry Wise with Barry Schwartz
February 07, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBThis week, we had to cut our conversation short with a fellow social psychologist-philosopher, Barry Schwartz, professor emeritus of psychology at Swarthmore College, and a visiting professor at Haas School of Business. We discuss Barry's recent paper Science, scholarship, and intellectual virtues. Schwartz, B. (2020). Science, scholarship, and intellectual virtues: A guide to what higher education should be like. Journal of Moral Education, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2020.17...
Don' Stop Believin' with Don Moore
January 23, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBThis week, we chat with Don Moore, a professor in the Management of Organization group at the Haas School of Business, and author of Perfectly Confident. We talk about confidence, overconfidence, perseverance, the tall poppy syndrome, and share our favorite dad jokes. Don's book, Perfectly Confident: https://perfectlyconfident.com/
Don' Stop Believin' with Don Moore
January 23, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBThis week, we chat with Don Moore, a professor in the Management of Organization group at the Haas School of Business, and author of Perfectly Confident. We talk about confidence, overconfidence, perseverance, the tall poppy syndrome, and share our favorite dad jokes. Don's book, Perfectly Confident: https://perfectlyconfident.com/
The Importance of Being Ernst with Rachel Ernstoff
January 17, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 78.5 MBIn our first episode of the new year, we're joined by Rachel Ernstoff, a social psychology graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill studying intergroup relations and political polarization. In this episode, Rachel shares her fascinating background with us, after which we discuss political polarization and the research around it, the recent attack the Capitol, and Trump's Twitter ban. Rachel's posts on The Pipettepen: http://www.thepipettepen.com/author/ernstofflive-unc-edu/ Rachel's blog: http...
Robbing the Cranium with Rob Chavez
December 06, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBThis week, we talk to Rob Chavez, an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. We discuss what social neuroscience is, how social psychology can inform neuroscience, and whether our understanding of the brain can have broader impacts on society. This is your Brain on Psychology – This is your Psychology on Brain (a guest post by Rob Chavez): https://thehardestscience.com/2018/11/30/this-is-your-brain-on-psychology-this-is-your-psychology-on-brain-a-gu...
Kat Race with Kathryn McCabe
November 30, 2020 03:00 - 2 hours - 91.3 MBThis week, we have an in-depth conversation with Kat (Kathryn) McCabe, a social ecologist and antiracism educator, about the modern antiracist movement and its potential impact on race relations. The Change Agency: https://www.thechangeagency.ie Short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
Mentorshipgate!
November 22, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBThis week, we discuss the recent controversy surrounding a Nature Communications paper that looks at informal mentorship, the gender of mentee/mentors, and subsequent scientific impact of the mentees. There has a been a call from the Twitter science community for the retraction of the paper. Edit: Smriti mentions that someone had tweeted and asked people to email the first author, but it was actually the EIC of Nature Comm: https://twitter.com/pollyp1/status/1329414989032157185 Paper: ...
Mentorshipgate!
November 22, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBThis week, we discuss the recent controversy surrounding a Nature Communications paper that looks at informal mentorship, the gender of mentee/mentors, and subsequent scientific impact of the mentees. There has a been a call from the Twitter science community for the retraction of the paper. Edit: Smriti mentions that someone had tweeted and asked people to email the first author, but it was actually the EIC of Nature Comm: https://twitter.com/pollyp1/status/1329414989032157185 Paper: ...