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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…
15 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