Podcast Episodes
Back to Search[Repost] Epistemic Learned Helplessness
Episode 195
[This is a slightly edited repost of an essay from my old LiveJournal]
A friend recently complained about how many people lack the basic skill of bel…
7 years, 2 months ago
In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization
Episode 194
[Content warning: Discussion of social justice, discussion of violence, spoilers for Jacqueline Carey books.]
[Edit 10/25: This post was inspired by …
7 years, 2 months ago
Postscript to APA Photo-Essay
Episode 193
I was surprised how many people responded to my APA photo-essay with comments like “Seems psychiatry as a field is broken beyond repair” or “This pro…
7 years, 2 months ago
The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay
Episode 192
The first thing you notice at the American Psychiatric Association meeting is its size. By conservative estimates, a quarter of the psychiatrists in …
7 years, 3 months ago
A Critical Period for Lactation Fetishes
Episode 191
Enquist et al on lactation fetishes is one of my favorite papers.
They wonder – as we’ve all wondered at one point or another – how people develop fe…
7 years, 3 months ago
Age Gaps and Birth Order Effects
Episode 190
Psychologists are split on the existence of “birth order effects”, where oldest siblings will have different personality traits and outcomes than mid…
7 years, 3 months ago
Is There a Case for Skepticism of Psychedelic Therapy?
Episode 189
There’s been an explosion of interest in the use of psychedelics in psychiatry. Like everyone else, I hope this works out. But recent discussion has …
7 years, 3 months ago
5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
Episode 188
In 1996, some researchers discovered that depressed people often had an unusual version of the serotonin transporter gene 5-HTTLPR. The study became …
7 years, 3 months ago
Little Known Types of Eclipse
Episode 187
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth gets between the Moon and the Sun.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon gets between the Earth and the Sun.
A t…
7 years, 3 months ago
Update to Partial Retraction of Animal Value and Neuron Number
Episode 186
A few weeks ago I published results of a small (n = 50) survey showing that people’s moral valuation of different kinds of animals scaled pretty nice…
7 years, 3 months ago