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Dopamine, misunderstood
Are we addicted to talking about dopamine? In this episode, we tackle dopamine hype with real science: what dopamine is doing in the brain, how we st…
8 hours ago
You have bad mental models of learning
You can find the talk Cat gave about learning and its citations here: https://github.com/DrCatHicks/tailscale_talk
On beliefs about humans being more…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
You can write a book
Season 2 Episode 5
📚 PREVIEW CAT'S BOOK, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS! Pre-orders will be available in June.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Software-Te…
4 months ago
You can learn with AI
Season 2 Episode 4
Can people learn in the AI era? Ashley and Cat think so. We talk about Ashley's experiences teaching programming and co-designing WITH students (not …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Know your neighbors
Season 2 Episode 3
This isn't the episode we planned, but it's what is on our minds right now. We talk about the power of knowing your neighbors and a few ways in which…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Math is for girls
Season 2 Episode 2
The story from Janet Hyde about her motivations to get a grant and "fight with data" can be found here:
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Science deserves stories
Season 2 Episode 1
First of all, in this episode you'll learn why Ashley has shipped ONE THOUSAND COCKROACHES through the mail. Second of all, Ashley shares about getti…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Change, Technically anniversary special
Season 1 Episode 13
Ashley, Cat, and Danilo reflect on the major themes after one year of Change, Technically.
For more information on consulting with Cat, please visit h…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Andor and the psychology of resistance
Season 1 Episode 12
SHOW NOTES
Dominic Packer’s Normative Conflict Model of Dissent is described in this paper as well as his other work: https://journals.sagepub.com/do…
1 year ago
You deserve better brain research
Season 1 Episode 11
SHOW NOTES:
For an example of a consideration of learning with information searching, a paper by Saskia Giebl and co-authors explored students learnin…
1 year, 1 month ago