Two Psychologists Four Beers

Neuroscientist and addiction researcher Carl Hart joins the show to talk drug legalization. Why does he think all drugs should be legal? What are some common myths about drug use and addiction? And how has his personal experience as a regular drug user influenced his views?

Bonus: What drugs should we try next?

Special Guest: Carl Hart.

Links:

• Frisch - Collective Arts Brewing
• 6ix Days in Dade | J Wakefield Brewing
• Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear: Hart, Carl L. Dr.: 9781101981641: Amazon.com: Books
• Effects of Acute Smoked Marijuana on Complex Cognitive Performance | Neuropsychopharmacology
• Inappropriate interpretations of prenatal drug use data can be worse than the drugs themselves - ScienceDirect
• Carl Hart Interview: Imagining a World Where All Drugs Are Legal | GQ
• Sylvan Esso - Free - YouTube

In this episode, Yoel and Mickey tackle problems of tone and incivility in online discussions of the scientific literature. What constitutes bullying and is the term abused to derail legitimate criticism? What is an ad hominem attack and when is it a fallacy? Finally, who's our favorite member of the Black Goat podcast?

Links:

• When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy - The New York Times
• Here’s How Cornell Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies About How We Eat
• Some Points On Bullying, Attacks and Criticism
• Simone Schnall's replication response
• Issues with data and analyses: Errors, underlying themes, and potential solutions | PNAS — Scientists are often protected by academic freedom, and in the United States, individuals are afforded First Amendment rights for free speech. However, freedoms are not immune to legal or social recourse, as in the case where a biotech chief executive officer was convicted of wire fraud for a misleading press release about a product (88). Individuals engaging in ad hominem attacks in scientific discourse should be subject to censure.
• No, we can't censure people for ad hominem attacks in scientific discourse. |
• Stop accusing me of ad hominem fallacies you stupid idiots | The Logic of Science
• PsychMAP
• PsychMAD
• Sanjay's blog
• Simine's blog
• The Black Goat – A podcast about doing science
• Wheat — Side Launch Brewing Company
• Great Lakes Brewery - Octopus Wants to Fight IPA

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.

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Links:

• Whale's Tale IPA | Cisco Brewers
• Jelly King (Mango/Passionfruit) – Bellwoods Brewery
• Perpetual IPA - Tröegs Independent Brewing
• Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory - The New York Times
• WEIRDest People in the World | Joe Henrich
• The weirdest people in the world?
• The cultural evolution of prosocial religions
• A problem in theory | Nature Human Behaviour
• Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history | Nature
• The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter | Joe Henrich
• Kid Cudi - Just What I Am ft. King Chip - YouTube

Yoel and Mickey take a deep dive into the Democratic Primary field, asking what the field of judgment and decision making can teach us about the large and diverse field of Democratic candidates. Why is Biden leading in the polls? Is Elizabeth Warren being helped by Kamala Harris? Why isn’t Biden hurt by progressives’ deep dislike of him? What should we make of one-issue voters?

Bonus: Yoel makes a fearless and consequential prediction. Who will make him stick to his word?

Links:

• Miller High Life • RateBeer
• Following outcry, American Psychological Association “refocuses” takedown notice program – Retraction Watch
• 2020 Presidential Candidates | The New York Times
• The recognition heuristic: A decade of research — The recognition heuristic exploits the basic psychological capacity for recognition in order to make inferences about unknown quantities in the world
• The Adaptive Decision Maker: John W. Payne, James R. Bettman, Eric J. Johnson: 9780521425261: Books - Amazon.ca — The Adaptive Decision Maker argues that people use a variety of strategies to make judgments and choices. The authors introduce a model that shows how decision makers which strategy a person will use in a given situation.
• Decoy effect - Wikipedia — In marketing, the decoy effect (or attraction effect or asymmetric dominance effect) is the phenomenon whereby consumers will tend to have a specific change in preference between two options when also presented with a third option that is asymmetrically dominated.
• Choice Based on Reasons: The Case of Attraction and Compromise Effects on JSTOR — Choice Based on Reasons: The Case of Attraction and Compromise Effects

Mickey and Yoel take on social media. What are the upsides and downsides of being on social media, particularly Twitter? Why does Mickey ban himself from social media for most of the day? What led Yoel to abandon Twitter entirely for two weeks, and what drew him back in? Would the open science movement have happened without social media? Bonus: when is it a good idea to give voice to the voiceless?

Links:

• Blood Brothers — Blood Brothers Brewing is a family-owned craft brewery opened in 2015 by Dustin and Brayden Jones in Toronto, Ontario.
• Department of Deviance: Resignation — I have been a blogger at Feminist Philosophers for about 5 years. I resigned from the blog over the summer but now want to do so publicly.
• Keziah on Twitter: "PROM... " — To everyone causing so much negativity: I mean no disrespect to the Chinese culture. I’m simply showing my appreciation to their culture. I’m not deleting my post because I’ve done nothing but show my love for the culture. It’s a fucking dress. And it’s beautiful.
• Opinion | The Nation Magazine Betrays a Poet — and Itself - The New York Times — I was the magazine’s poetry editor for 35 years. Never once did we apologize for publishing a poem.
• How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life - The New York Times
• Moral outrage in the digital age | Nature Human Behaviour — Moral outrage is an ancient emotion that is now widespread on digital media and online social networks. How might these new technologies change the expression of moral outrage and its social consequences?
• Clay Routledge on Twitter: "I keep seeing people post about how Twitter is horrible and exhausting.
• Jonathan Kay on the tyranny of Twitter: How mob censure is changing the intellectual landscape | National Post — Without intending to, Twitter’s culture warriors have created a sort of crowdsourced ideological autocracy ― and paradoxically, it’s left-wingers who are often targets