Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLove Languages Were Never Scientific
Season 3 Episode 25
Why Love Languages Went Viral Without the Science to Support Them
Millions of people can name their love language. Almost none of them know the man wh…
2 months, 1 week ago
Why We Keep Falling For Moral Panics
Season 3 Episode 24
Moral Panics as Effort Shields: Why Outrage Replaces Action
Why do we grab onto moral panics so eagerly, and then quietly drop them the moment they st…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Why We Reject New Evidence That Could Directly Help Us: The Semmelweis Effect
Season 3 Episode 23
The Semmelweis Effect, COVID Cognitive Decline, and Why Evidence Struggles to Spread
Host Leslie Poston explains the Semmelweis effect (reflexively re…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Age of Uncertainty: What Workplace Instablity is Doing to Your Brain
Season 3 Episode 22
Sustained Uncertainty at Work: Why It Hurts Your Brain and What Helps
Host Leslie Poston discusses sustained workplace uncertainty and its psychologic…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Sounds Deep, Says Nothing: The Science of Bullshit Receptivity
Season 3 Episode 21
Bullshit Receptivity: Why We Trust the Wrong Words
Host Leslie Poston discusses “bullshit receptivity,” a peer-reviewed construct describing susceptib…
3 months ago
The Credibility Trap: Why We Trust Confident Wrongness
Season 3 Episode 20
The Credibility Trap: Why Confidence Beats Correctness
Host Leslie Poston is back after a hiatus to move PsyberSpace to a new weekly Thursday schedule…
3 months, 1 week ago
Propaganda: Nobody's Immune
Season 3 Episode 19
How Propaganda Uses Your Values Against Your Brain: The Passport Revocation Example
Host Leslie Poston explains that no one is immune to propaganda, u…
4 months ago
Moral Licensing: How Doing Good Gives People Permission to Be Worse
Season 3 Episode 18
Moral Licensing: Why Doing Good Can Make Us Behave Worse
Host Leslie Poston explains the phenomenon of moral licensing: after people do something that…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Death of Serendipity: What Algorithmic Personalization Is Doing to Your Mind
Season 3 Episode 17
The Cost of Losing Serendipity in Algorithmic Discovery
Host Leslie Poston discusses how algorithmic recommendation systems have replaced everyday acc…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
From the Rape Academy to Your Living Room
Season 3 Episode 16
Semantic Derailment and the Social Permission That Sustains Organized Sexual Violence
Host Leslie Poston discusses a CNN investigation into an “online…
4 months, 4 weeks ago