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Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Report Claims American Psychological Association Secretly Supported Torture Policy

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The philosophy of humor

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Ethical Expressivism

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Moral Anti-Realism

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John Hodgman on the hot dog/sandwich debate

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Perspectives on P.F. Strawson's 'Freedom and Resentment'

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Why Self-Driving Cars Must be Programmed to Kill

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Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)

Autonomous Vehicles Need Experimental Ethics: Are We Ready for Utilitarian Cars?

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Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)

The Philosophical Problem of Killing Baby Hitler

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Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)

Why it's Unethical to Go Back in Time and Kill Baby Hitler

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Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)

The New Intolerance of Student Activism

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President Peter Salovey's statement to Yale community

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2015 University of Missouri Protests

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Amherst College Uprising (with list of demands)

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National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation

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Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)

Cell Phones, iPods, and Subjective Well-Being

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Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)

Desire theories of well-being

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Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)

Who Stole Feminism

Book - Christina Hoff Sommers

Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)

The War Against Boys

Book - Christina Hoff Sommers

Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)

Fear in the Air, Americans Look Over Their Shoulders

Article

Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)

The Coddling of the American Mind

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Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)

CDS Appropriates Asian Dishes, Students Say

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Episode 80: The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)

Episode 81: Domo Arigato, Mr. Robot (With Yoel Inbar)

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Four Essays on Liberty

Book - Isaiah Berlin

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In Wisconsin, Efforts to End Taunting at Games Lead to Claims of Coddling

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The Power of the Power Pose: Amy Cuddy's Famous Finding is the Latest Example of Scientific Overreach

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Positive and Negative Liberty

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Two Concepts of Liberty

Essay - Isaiah Berlin

The totalitarian ego: Fabrication and revision of personal history

Article

Episode 83: Ego Trip

A Confederacy of Dunces

Book - John Kennedy Toole

Moral Luck

Book - Bernard Williams

The Bad News Bears

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Drive

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Frank

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Hustle and Flow

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Jackie Brown

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Miracle of Morgan's Creek

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Pulp Fiction

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Sullivan's Travels

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Spellbound

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Slapshot

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What We Do in the Shadows

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The Far Side

Short Story - Gary Larson

Key and Peele

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The Office (UK)

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Rawls and Pascal’s Wager

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Moral Foundations Questionnaire (30-item)

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

The Big Lebowski

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Shaun of the Dead

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

The Man with Two Brains

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

All of Me

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Stranger than Fiction

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Being There

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Defending Your Life

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Lost in America

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Modern Times

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Seven Psychopaths

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

In Bruges

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Barton Fink

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Sullivan's Travels

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Purple Rose of Cairo

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Office Space

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Dr. Strangelove

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Brazil

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Trading Places

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

The Princess Bride

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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

The Doomsday Machine

Article

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Mr. Skin

Article

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

In defense of flogging

Book - Peter Moskos

Episode 86: Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment

University of Houston Faculty Devises Pointers on How to Avoid Getting Shot by Armed Students

Article

Episode 86: Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment

A PowerPoint Slide Advises Professors to Alter Teaching to Pacify Armed Students

Article

Episode 86: Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment

What do alternative sanctions mean?

Article

Episode 86: Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

Book - Robert Frank

Passions Within Reason

Book - Robert Frank

Inference of Trustworthiness from Intuitive Moral Judgments

Article

Detecting the trustworthiness of novel partners in economic exchange

Article

The Right to be Loved

Book - S. Matthew Liao

The Denial of Death

Book - Ernest Becker

A History of Western Philosophy

Book - Bertrand Russell

The Story of Philosophy

Book - Wil Durant

Is Shame Necessary?

Book - Jennifer Jacquet

TV Show

Rick and Morty

TV Show

We Must Do Everything We Can For The Children Vs. Can't Someone Else Do It?

Article

George Rainbolt's review of 'The Right to be Loved' by Matthew Liao

Article

Marijuana is Kosher

Article

Well-being and death

Book - Ben Bradley

Is Shame Necessary?

Book - Jennifer Jacquet

Shame

Movie

Babies

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Sociology faculty member publishes book chapter

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Penn State retracts press release about sociologist reviewing an article.

Article

A very confusing paragraph

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Congratulations, you have an all male panel!

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Racists getting fired

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Episode 90: Of Mice and Morals

Maus

Book - Art Spiegelman

If babies were randomly allocated to families, would racism end?

Article

Episode 90: Of Mice and Morals

Morals and markets

Article

Episode 90: Of Mice and Morals

A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain

Book - Tamler Sommers

Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines

Machine Bias

Article

Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines

Mission Impossible: African-Americans & Analytics

Article

Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Book - Mark Twain

New poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans aren’t offended by Redskins name

Article

The conscience of Huckleberry Finn

Article

Nothing more than feelings?: The role of emotions in moral judgment

Article

Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)

Force Majeure

Movie

The Americans

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Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)

Louie

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Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)

On that one awkward sex scene from The Americans

Article

Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)

Scandinavia

Article

Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)

Effective altruism

Article

Episode 94: Buttery Friendships

Nancy Sherman 'Navigating our Moral World.'

Article

Episode 94: Buttery Friendships

Yuck!: the nature and moral significance of disgust

Book - D. Kelly

Very Bad Wizards Episode 7: Psychopaths and Utilitarians Pt. 2

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The Wisdom of Repugnance: Why we should ban the cloning of humans

Article

Yuck: The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust

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On disgust and moral judgment

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The Stupidity of Dignity

Article

Bonus Episode: More Doobie-ous Theories About "Mr. Robot" (Season 2)

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The Berenstein Bears: We Are Living in Our Own Parallel Universe

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Bonus Episode: More Doobie-ous Theories About "Mr. Robot" (Season 2)

On the Berenstein Bears Switcheroo

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Bonus Episode: More Doobie-ous Theories About "Mr. Robot" (Season 2)

Memento

Movie

Episode 96: Memory and Meaning in "Memento" (with Paul Bloom)

Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret

Book - Judy Blume

Reflections on Rationalia

Article

Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government

Article

Motivated skepticism: Use of differential decision criteria for preferred and nonpreferred conclusions

Article

The Dogmatic Slumber of Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Hume's Moral Philosophy

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Is-ought problem

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GE Moore's Moral Philosophy

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Open-question argument

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The Naturalistic Fallacy

Article

Episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot

To Kill a Mockingbird

Book - Harper Lee

Episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot

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Mob Rule or the Wisdom of Crowds?

Article

Episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot

Andrew Gelman's blog post

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Episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot

Why most published research findings are false.

Article

Episode 99: Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot

Passenger 57

Movie

Moral Machine

Article

Garfield Minus Garfield

Article

Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect

Article

False-positive psychology undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant

Article

Episode 101: Having Desert and Eating It Too

Infernal Affairs

Movie

Oregon Student Government: Dressing Up as Any Character Is Cultural Appropriation, Not Okay - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Article

Episode 101: Having Desert and Eating It Too

Russell, P. (2008). Free will, art and morality. The Journal of ethics, 12(3-4), 307-325. [academia.edu]

Article

Episode 101: Having Desert and Eating It Too

Black Mirror - San Junipero

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Wes Alwan's Facebook post about the election

Article

Glenn Greenwald on Who’s to Blame for Trump’s Election

Article

What So Many People Don't Get About the US Working Class by Joan Williams

Article

I Will Never Underestimate White People's Need to Preserve Whiteness Again

Article

Charlie Brooker Shares 'San Junipero' Playlist from Black Mirror

Article

Mr. Robot Virtual Reality Experience

Article

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Book - Sebastian Junger

Episode 103: Very Bad Utopias

Gross Anatomy | News & City Life | Houstonia

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Episode 103: Very Bad Utopias

Very Bad Wizards is creating a Biweekly Podcast | Patreon

Article

Episode 103: Very Bad Utopias

Against Empathy

Book - Paul Bloom

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Ex Machina

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

The Revenant

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Nightcrawler

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Never Let Me Go

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Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

The Cabin in the Woods

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Tangerine

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Sullivan's Travels

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

The Silence of the Lambs

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Being John Malkovich

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Under the Skin

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Westworld

TV Show

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Review: ‘Against Empathy,’ or the Right Way to Feel Someone’s Pain - The New York Times

Article

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Why sexual desire is objectifying – and hence morally wrong | Aeon Ideas

Article

Co-reactive attitudes and the making of moral community Final MS, forthcoming in In Emotions, Imagination and Moral Reasoning, eds., C. MacKenzie & R. Langdon. Macquarie monographs in Cognitive Science. Psychology Press, 2010.

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Roskies, A. (2006). Neuroscientific challenges to free will and responsibility. Trends in cognitive sciences, 10(9), 419-423.

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Greene, J., & Cohen, J. (2004). For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 359(1451), 1775-85.

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Pizarro, D.A. & Helzer, E. (2010). Freedom of the will and stubborn moralism. In Baumeister, R.F., A.R. Mele, and K. D. Vohs (Eds.) Free will and consciousness: How might they work? (pp. 101-120) Oxford University Press.

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What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to Be More Widely Known? | Edge.org

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Edge.org - Brian Eno 'The Confirmation Bias'

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Edge.org - Daniel Rockmore 'The Trolley Problem'

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Edge.org - Michael Gazzaniga 'The Schnitt'

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Edge.org - Sean Carroll 'Bayes' Theorem'

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Edge.org - Lisa Randall 'Effective Theory'

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Tosi, J., & Warmke, B. (2016). Moral Grandstanding. [full text preprint]

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Gross Anatomy: In This Political Climate, When Are We Right to Feel Disgusted? | News & City Life | Houstonia

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Minson, J. A., & Monin, B. (2012). Do-gooder derogation disparaging morally motivated minorities to defuse anticipated reproach. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(2), 200-207.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Aboriginal Territory in British Columbia | Safe Harbour - Respect for All

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Leave Britney Alone (Complete)

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Newman, G. E., & Cain, D. M. (2014). Tainted Altruism When Doing Some Good Is Evaluated as Worse Than Doing No Good at All. Psychological science, 25(3), 648-655.

Article

Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Latino - Wikipedia

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Bakersfield, California - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Situationism (psychology) - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Action theory (philosophy) - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Gary Watson - USC Gould School of Law

Article

Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

Break Beat

Article

Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

The Social Constitution of Responsible Agency: Oppression, Politics, and Moral Ecology

Article

Episode 107: Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)

The Real Problem With Hypocrisy - The New York Times

Article

Episode 108: The Gimp Exception

Why Do We Hate Hypocrites? Evidence for a Theory of False Signaling by Jillian J. Jordan, Roseanna Sommers, Paul Bloom, David G. Rand :: SSRN

Article

Episode 108: The Gimp Exception

Thrill of the chaste: The truth about Gandhi's sex life | The Independent

Article

Episode 108: The Gimp Exception

Cornell University Students Vote Against Intellectual Diversity, on Grounds It Would Harm Diversity - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Article

Child sex doll trial opens Pandora's box of questions about child porn - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News

Article

The 96 hours that brought down Milo Yiannopoulos - The Washington Post

Article

Age of Consent - by Jesse Bering - The Stranger

Article

Wolf, S. (1992). Two levels of pluralism. Ethics, 102(4), 785-798.

Article

Value Pluralism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Article

Yo, Judío by Jorge Luis Borges

Article

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

The Bell Curve

Book - Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray

Coming Apart

Book - Charles Murray

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

Arrival

Movie

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

The United States Top Searches – Pornhub Insights

Article

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

A Violent Attack on Free Speech at Middlebury - The Atlantic

Article

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

Understanding the Angry Mob at Middlebury That Gave Me a Concussion - The New York Times

Article

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

Arrival

Movie

Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

Who's afraid of the big bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic differences in temporal language and thought. Language learning, 58(s1), 63-79. Chicago

Article

Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

Inscrutability of reference - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

Article

Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

The idea of monogamy as a relationship ideal is based on flawed science — Quartz

Article

A Former Student Says UC Berkeley’s Star Philosophy Professor Groped Her And Watched Porn At Work - BuzzFeed News

Article

About - The Casual Sex Project

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The Woman With an Alternative Theory of Hookups -- The Cut

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Clark, R. D., & Hatfield, E. (1989). Gender differences in receptivity to sexual offers. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 2(1), 39-55.

Article

Research - The Gottman Institute

Article

Break music: Shadow Play by peez

Article

Brock Jarrett on Twitter: 'I was shocked to meet a podcast hero at a coffee shop in Denver. @tamler @verybadwizards https://t.co/4WBdqhUw8t'

Article

#BONUS – “Dr. David Pizarro from Very Bad Wizards.” - I Doubt It with Dollemore

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A Good Cause: Sponsor Tamler in the 2017 BP MS 150

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Gettier, E. L. (1963). Is justified true belief knowledge?. analysis, 23(6), 121-123.

Article

Frankfurt cases - Wikipedia

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Evil demon - Wikipedia

Article

The Long Road to Skepticism on JSTOR

Article

2017 BP MS 150: Mr. Tamler Sommers - National MS Society

Article

Prose&Cons - YouTube

Article

Why people are so bad at thinking about the future.

Article

On Intertemporal Selfishness: How the Perceived Instability of Identity Underlies Impatient Consumption | Journal of Consumer Research | Oxford Academic

Article

Homer's Soul by Paul Bloom and David Pizarro

Article

Pascal's Wager - Wikipedia

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Pascal's mugging - Wikipedia

Article

Transformative Experience by L.A. Paul, in conversation with Paul Bloom.

Article

Transformative Experience: by L. A. Paul

Article

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

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Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

High Plains Drifter

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Tombstone

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

The Limey

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Carlito's Way

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Blue Ruin

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

The price of freedom | OUPblog

Article

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Progressive Family Unable to Finish Game of 'Guess Who?'

Article

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Jay Van Bavel on Twitter: Psychologists: our field is a hot mess Philosophers: hold my beer

Article

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

EP. 86 SAM HARRIS Part #1 by #WeThePeople LIVE | Free Listening on SoundCloud

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Issues in the Profession

Article

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like

Article

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The real damage done by the flare-up over a philosopher's journal article (essay)

Article

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The Nastic Gospels | Peez

Article

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Brian Nosek's Reproducibility Project Finds Many Psychology Studies Unreliable - The Atlantic

Article

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Inside Psychology’s ‘Methodological Terrorism’ Debate -- Science of Us

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Replication studies: Bad copy : Nature News & Comment

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Repeat After Me - by Maki Naro

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

sometimes i'm wrong [Simine Vazire's blog]

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Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The Hardest Science [Sanjay Srivastava's Blog]

Article

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The 20% Statistician [Daniël Lakens' Blog]

Article

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

The Black Goat – A podcast about doing science

Article

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

You Are Not So Smart

Article

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Skeptic » Reading Room » The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies

Article

Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Sokal affair - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Why the 'Conceptual Penis' Hoax is Just a Big Cock Up. - Bleeding Heart Libertarians

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

The engine of irrationality inside the rationalists – Ketan Joshi

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

An embarrassing moment for the skeptical movement – Footnotes to Plato

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Bartoshuk, L. (2014). The measurement of pleasure and pain. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 91-93.

Article

Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Krueger, A. B., & Stone, A. A. (2014). Progress in measuring subjective well-being. Science, 346(6205), 42-43.

Article

Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

The Extended Mind

Book - Andy Clark and David Chalmers

Gay man, who suffered from depression over his circumcision, kills himself

Article

Circumcision’s Psychological Damage | Psychology Today

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Foreskin restoration for circumcised males

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Distributed cognition - Wikipedia

Article

The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies

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Episode 118: We Don't Love Them Hoax

Some Thoughts on “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct” Hoax

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Episode 118: We Don't Love Them Hoax

Proof that Americans are lying about their sexual desires - Vox

Article

Doris, J. M. (2009). Genealogy and Evidence: Prinz on the History of Morals.

Article

Kahane, G. (2011). Evolutionary debunking arguments. Noûs, 45(1), 103-125.

Article

The Splintered Mind: Tamler Sommers

Article

Episode 120: Clap Your Hand for Robert Wright

Why Buddhism is True

Book - Robert Wright

Mulholland Drive

Movie

Episode 121: The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive"

Everything you were afraid to ask about “Mulholland Drive” - Salon.com

Article

Episode 121: The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive"

Film Crit Hulk Smash: HULK VS. THE GENIUS OF MULHOLLAND DRIVE | Birth.Movies.Death.

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Episode 121: The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive"

A Very Bad Wizard: Morality behind the curtain

Book - Tamler Sommers

Episode 122: Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1)

Intelligence: All that matters

Book - Stuart Ritchie

Episode 122: Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1)

The Simpsons

TV Show

Episode 122: Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1)

What Does Your Dog Really Want? - Scientific American Blog Network

Article

Episode 122: Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1)

Race & IQ: Debate Serves No Purpose | National Review

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Returning to the race and IQ debate | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter [The Glenn Show] - YouTube

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Race & IQ: Don’t Obsess Over It, but Do Discuss It | National Review

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Templeton, A. R. (1998). Human races: a genetic and evolutionary perspective. American Anthropologist, 100(3), 632-650. Chicago

Article

Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Study Finds Africans More Genetically Diverse Than Other Populations

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Human penis size - Wikipedia

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Episode 123: What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)

Larsen, N. E., Lee, K., & Ganea, P. A. (2017). Do storybooks with anthropomorphized animal characters promote prosocial behaviors in young children?. Developmental Science.

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

Children's books with humans have greater moral impact than animals, study finds | Books | The Guardian

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

Strawson, G. (2004). Against narrativity. Ratio, 17(4), 428-452.

Article

Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

Strawson, G. (2007). Episodic ethics. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 60, 85-115.

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

Parfit, D. (1995). The unimportance of identity.

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

I am Not a Story

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Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life

Star Trek

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Solomon, R. C. (1973). Emotions and choice. The Review of Metaphysics, 20-41.

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What Emotions Are (and Aren’t) - The New York Times

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Are Emotions Natural Kinds? Perspectives on Psychological Science - Lisa Feldman Barrett, 2006

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Rick and Morty

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The Extent of Skin Bending Rather Than Action Possibilities Explains Why Holes Feel Larger With the Tongue Than With the Finger. - PubMed - NCBI

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Pure joy: a colorblind man sees color for the first time

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Dan Harmon Reveals the Meaning of Life in RICK AND MORTY | Nerdist

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Microcosmos - Dung beetle rolls ball and gets stuck. - YouTube

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Nagel, T. (1971). The absurd. The Journal of Philosophy, 68(20), 716-727.

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Camus, A. (1955). The myth of Sisyphus, and other essays. Vintage.

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The absurd

Essay - Thomas Nagel

The myth of Sisyphus, and other essays

Essay - Albert Camus

Mortal questions

Book - Thomas Nagel

The Partially Examined Life Episode 176 Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Part One)

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The Partially Examined Life Episode 176 Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Part Two)

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The Partially Examined Life Episode 93: Freedom and Responsibility (Strawson vs Strawson)

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Moral Luck

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Moral Luck (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Intentional stance

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Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)

Mortal Questions

Book - Thomas Nagel

Finding Vivian Maier

Movie

Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)

We’re at risk of turning #metoo into rush to blame all men - NY Daily News

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Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)

1984

Book - George Orwell

Brave New World

Book - Aldous Huxley

Never Let Me Go

Book - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lobster

Movie

Gattaca

Movie

Children of Men

Movie

The Trial

Movie

Snowpiercer

Movie

Idiocracy

Movie

A Clockwork Orange

Movie

Harrison Bergeron

Short Story - Kurt Vonnegut

The Twilight Zone

TV Show

Letters of Note: 1984 v. Brave New World

Article

The Trial - Wikipedia

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It's a Good Life (The Twilight Zone) - Wikipedia

Article

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

Book - Dave Grossman

Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)

Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships

Book - Alan Fiske and Tage Rai

Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

Book - Kate Manne

Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)

Star Trek

TV Show

Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)

Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)

TV Show

The Root of All Cruelty?

Article

Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)

Our enemies are human: that’s why we want to kill them | Aeon Ideas

Article

Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Short Story - Harlan Ellison

Episode 131: I Have No Genitals and I Must Scream

Black Mirror

TV Show

Episode 131: I Have No Genitals and I Must Scream

Is Your Child Lying to You? That’s Good - The New York Times

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Episode 131: I Have No Genitals and I Must Scream

Emotional Success

Book - David DeSteno

Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)

How Utilitarian Are You? The Oxford Utilitarianism Scale | Practical Ethics

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Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)

Everett, J. A., Pizarro, D. A., Crockett, M. J. (2016). Inference of trustworthiness from intuitive moral judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 772–787

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Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)

Newhart

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Dallas

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SpongeBob SquarePants

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Tommy Westphall - Wikipedia

Article

20 Years Ago: 'Newhart' ends with a shock | EW.com

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Dallas (1978 TV series) (season 9) - Wikipedia

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It's Just a Cartoon, How can SpongeBob and friends go to the beach if...

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Nagel, T. (1970). Death. Noûs, 73-80.

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Brown, M., & Sacco, D. F. (2017). Is pulling the lever sexy? Deontology as a downstream cue to long-term mate quality. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 0265407517749331.

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Episode 134: Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett)

Crockett, M. J. (2017). Moral outrage in the digital age. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(11), 769.

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Episode 134: Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett)

Utilitarianism: For and against

Book - J. J. C. Smart, Bernard Williams

The Usual Suspects

Movie

Protesters try to shut down Christina Hoff Sommers at Lewis & Clark Law School - YouTube

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Statement on the Christina Hoff Sommers Event at the Law School - Newsroom - Lewis & Clark

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We’re All Fascists Now - The New York Times

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Williams, B. 'Consequentialism and Integrity' [published originally in 'Utilitarianism: For and Against', ed. Smart and Williams (Cambridge University Press, 1973), pp. 82-118.]

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Megyn Kelly Today

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Laurie Santos | Comparative Cognition Laboratory

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Psychology and The Good Life 2018 Course Syllabus

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Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment | TED Talk

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Character Strength Survey

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Episode 137: Are Buddhists Afraid to Die? (with Shaun Nichols)

Why Honor Matters

Book - Tamler Sommers

Nichols, S., Strohminger, N., Rai, A., & Garfield, J. (2018). Death and the self. Cognitive science.

Article

Episode 137: Are Buddhists Afraid to Die? (with Shaun Nichols)

Why Honor Matters

Book - Tamler Sommers

Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Movie

Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

The Science of Sleep

Movie

Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Be Kind Rewind

Movie

Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Why Honor Matters

Book - Tamler Sommers

Episode 139: Honor, Identity, and Headbutts

Berger, P. (1970). On the Obsolescence of the Concept of Honor. European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie/Europäisches Archiv für Soziologie, 11(2), 339-347.

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Episode 139: Honor, Identity, and Headbutts

Materazzi finally admits what he said to Zidane in the World Cup Final | For The Win

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Episode 139: Honor, Identity, and Headbutts

Neuroskeptic - Wikipedia

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Neuroskeptic (@Neuro_Skeptic) | Twitter

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Neuroskeptic's Blog for Discover Magazine

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@Neuro_skeptic: 'If one post sums me up'

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Two Psychologists Four Beers

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Tatter (podcast)

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The Political Theory Review by Jeffrey Church on Apple Podcasts

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Bostyn, D. H., Sevenhant, S., & Roets, A. (2018). Of Mice, Men, and Trolleys: Hypothetical Judgment Versus Real-Life Behavior in Trolley-Style Moral Dilemmas. Psychological Science, 0956797617752640.

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Opinion | Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web - The New York Times

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Psychology’s Racism-Measuring Tool Isn’t Up to the Job -- Science of Us

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Take the Implicit Associations Test (IAT)

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Greenwald, A. G., Poehlman, T. A., Uhlmann, E. L., & Banaji, M. R. (2009). Understanding and using the Implicit Association Test: III. Meta-analysis of predictive validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(1), 17.

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Oswald, F. L., Mitchell, G., Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., & Tetlock, P. E. (2013). Predicting ethnic and racial discrimination: A meta-analysis of IAT criterion studies. Journal of personality and social psychology, 105(2), 171.

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Nock, M. K., & Banaji, M. R. (2007). Prediction of suicide ideation and attempts among adolescents using a brief performance-based test. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 75(5), 707.

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Uhlmann, E. L., Pizarro, D. A., & Bloom, P. (2008). Varieties of social cognition. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38(3), 293-322.

Article

A Very Bad Wizard

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Stanford Prison Experiment: why famous psychology studies are now being torn apart - Vox

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The Lifespan of a Lie – Trust Issues – Medium

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Reicher, S., & Haslam, S. A. (2006). Rethinking the psychology of tyranny: The BBC prison study. British journal of social psychology, 45(1), 1-40.

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Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Part One) | The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast | A Philosophy Podcast and Blog

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Cha, C. B., Franz, P. J., M. Guzmán, E., Glenn, C. R., Kleiman, E. M., & Nock, M. K. (2018). Annual Research Review: Suicide among youth–epidemiology,(potential) etiology, and treatment. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 59(4), 460-482.

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Testing Inter-hemispheric Social Priming Theory in a Sample of Professional Politicians-A Brief Report

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Gary Lewis on Twitter: "I submitted a hoax manuscript to a predatory journal. The finding? Politicians from the right wipe their ass with their left hand (and vice versa) - big breakthrough! Manuscript accepted w/o review. I then haggled the OA fee down to $0 - so here it is -> https://t.co/SnozmgFgRJ"

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Break Music: Thief's Theme (peez remix)

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Personality psychology - Wikipedia

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Personality and Social Dynamics Lab | Sanjay Srivastava

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Simine Vazire

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The Black Goat – A podcast about doing science

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Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia — Myers–Briggs Type Indicator

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The Big Five Personality Traits & what they mean for your Political Views. | elephant journal

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HEXACO model of personality structure - Wikipedia

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Myers–Briggs Type Indicator - Wikipedia

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The Library of Babel

Short Story - Jorge Luis Borges

I. Y. Yunioshi - Wikipedia

Article

Eddie Murphy: White Like Me (SNL)

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Scarlett Johansson Withdraws from Controversial Role as a Trans Man Following Backlash

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Neuroskeptic on Twitter: 'Democrats were least likely to use Ashley Madison, Libertarians were most likely, and Republicans, Greens, and unaffiliated voters were in between.'

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The Ethics of Research on Leaked Data: Ashley Madison - Neuroskeptic

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Break Music: Nas Is Like (peez remix)

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The Library of Babel - Wikipedia

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The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel by William Goldbloom Bloch

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The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

Article

Episode 145: Lost in Borges' Garden

Sorry to Bother You

Movie

The Garden of Forking Paths

Short Story - Jorge Luis Borges

Episode 145: Lost in Borges' Garden

A Labyrinth of Symbols: Exploring 'The Garden of Forking Paths'

Article

Episode 145: Lost in Borges' Garden

A Poem in The Nation Spurs a Backlash and an Apology - The New York Times

Article

Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)

British economists prove it: Sports destroy happiness - The Washington Post

Article

Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)

Dolton, P., & MacKerron, G. (2018). Is football a matter of life and death - or is it more important than that?

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Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)

mappiness, the happiness mapping app

Article

Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)

Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back

Book - William MacAskill

Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)

The Most Efficient Way to Save a Life - The Atlantic

Article

Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)

Moral uncertainty - Effective Altruism Concepts

Article

Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)

80,000 Hours: How to make a difference with your career

Article

Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)

Giving What We Can

Article

Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)

US Open 2018: Serena Williams’ fight with umpire Carlos Ramos, explained - Vox

Article

Tamler tweets

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Sher, G. (2001). But I could be wrong. Social Philosophy and Policy, 18(2), 64-78.

Article

A Crying Shame: The 2018 US Open Will Only be Remembered for Serena by Cindy Shmerler (tennis.com)

Article

Martina Navratilova: What Serena Got Wrong (NY Times)

Article

Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

Twin Peaks: The Return

TV Show

There’s a big problem with immortality: it goes on and on | Aeon Essays

Article

Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

Goranson, A., Ritter, R. S., Waytz, A., Norton, M. I., & Gray, K. (2017). Dying Is Unexpectedly Positive. Psychological Science, 28(7), 988-999.

Article

Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

Williams, B. (1973). The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality (pp. pp-82).

Article

Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps

The Jem'Hadar

TV Show

Episode 150: Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots

Proposed 'sex robot brothel' blocked by Houston city council

Article

Episode 150: Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots

‘Sokal Squared’: Is Huge Publishing Hoax ‘Hilarious and Delightful’ or an Ugly Example of Dishonesty and Bad Faith? - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Article

Episode 150: Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots

A Clockwork Orange

Movie

Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")

A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")

COTO - Re-interpreting Alex's Violence in A Clockwork Orange

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Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")

A Clockwork Orange | Film Review | Slant Magazine

Article

Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")

Mortal Questions

Book - Thomas Nagel

Episode 152: Ruthlessness, Public and Private

Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas.’ Cue the Outcry. - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Article

Episode 152: Ruthlessness, Public and Private

2018 Sanders Philosophy of Mind Prize Winner - Daily Nous

Article

Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

Experiencing Left and Right in a Non-Orientable World by Jonathan Simon

Article

Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

Very Bad Wizards is on Reddit

Article

Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

Large scale replication project finds that one of Dave's and colleagues' most cited findings (association between disgust sensitivity and homophobia) is not real. : VeryBadWizards

Article

Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

OSF | Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Sample and Setting

Article

Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Short Story - Jorge Luis Borges

Episode 154: Metaphysical Vertigo (Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius")

The Simpsons

TV Show

Episode 154: Metaphysical Vertigo (Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius")

Is a hole a real thing, or just a place where something isn’t? | Aeon Ideas

Article

Episode 154: Metaphysical Vertigo (Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius")

Vertigo

Movie

Relax

Movie

The Ringer

TV Show

Vertigo (film) - Wikipedia

Article

Vertigo | Scanners | Roger Ebert

Article

Episode 156: Notes From Underground (Pt. 1)

Notes From Underground

Book - Fyodor Dostoevsky

'Traditional Masculinity' Can Be Harmful, Psychologists Find - The Atlantic

Article

Episode 156: Notes From Underground (Pt. 1)

APA ‘Masculinity’ Guidelines Face a Title IX Challenge at Harvard University, for Discriminating Against Men in Psychology

Article

Episode 156: Notes From Underground (Pt. 1)

Notes From Underground

Book - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Episode 157: Notes From Underground (Pt. 2)

Melnikoff, D. E., & Bargh, J. A. (2018). The mythical number two. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 280-293.

Article

Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity

The Annals of the TERF-Wars | Jane Clare Jones

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Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity

Feldman Barrett's theory of constructed emotion - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity

Dual process theory - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity

Let's get free: a hip-hop theory of justice

Book - Paul Butler

How to Live As an Antinatalist: 11 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow

Article

Suing your parents for being born has philosophical support — Quartz

Article

Indian man to sue parents for giving birth to him - BBC News

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Butler, P. D. (2012). Poor people lose: Gideon and the critique of rights. Yale LJ, 122, 2176.

Article

Butler, P. (2010). Let's get free: a hip-hop theory of justice. The New Press. Chicago

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Gideon v. Wainwright - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes

Book - Unknown

Love without jealousy: consider the benefits of compersion | Aeon Essays

Article

Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes

Resource Security Impacts Men’s Female Breast Size Preferences

Article

Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

Peez on Freakonomics Radio Live: “Would You Eat a Piece of Chocolate Shaped Like Dog Poop?”

Article

Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

We Are All Confident Idiots - Pacific Standard

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Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

Dunning, D. (2011). The Dunning–Kruger effect: On being ignorant of one's own ignorance. In Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 44, pp. 247-296). Academic Press.

Article

Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

Book - Ursula K. Le Guin

Episode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Short Story - Ursula K. Le Guin

Episode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")

Apple won't let its in-house philosopher talk to the press — Quartz

Article

The Will to Believe - Wikipedia

Article

Evidentialism - Wikipedia

Article

The Will to Believe

Essay - William James

Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")

Exhalation

Book - Ted Chiang

The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling

Short Story - Ted Chiang

Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")

Meryl Streep: 'We hurt our boys by calling something 'toxic masculinity''

Article

Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")

Deadwood: EB Farnum At Work

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Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")

Pulp Fiction

Movie

Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)

The Big Lebowski

Movie

Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)

The Big Lebowski

Movie

Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

Pulp Fiction

Movie

Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

Internet troll - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

Ken M Is The Most Epic Troll On The Internet

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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

Wrestling’s new villain named himself ‘Progressive Liberal.’ Hillary’s on his shirt. - The Washington Post

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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

‘Big Lebowski’ Sequel Renamed ‘The Jesus Rolls,’ Plans 2020 Release | IndieWire

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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

The Metamorphosis

Book - Franz Kafka

Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")

Life is short, stay awake: Death anxiety and bedtime procrastination. - PubMed - NCBI

Article

Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")

2nd Annual BEworks Summit for Behavioural Science in Business

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Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")

On Translating Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” | The New Yorker

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Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")

Power Washing Porn

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Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

Opinion | Why We Call Things ‘Porn’ - The New York Times

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Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

Pizarro, D.A., & Baumeister, R. (2013) Superhero comics as moral pornography. In R. Rosenberg (Ed.) Our Superheroes, Ourselves. Oxford University Press.

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Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

Rozin, P. (2001). Social psychology and science: Some lessons from Solomon Asch. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5(1), 2-14.

Article

Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

2nd Annual BEworks Summit for Behavioural Science in Business

Article

Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking

The Book of Job

Book - Unknown

Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Environmentalists are Wrong: Nature Isn’t Sacred and We Should Replace It - Transhumanist Wager

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Transhumanism - Wikipedia

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

The Book of Job (New International Version)

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Book of Job - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Who really wrote the Book of Job? - Jewish World - Haaretz - Israel News | Haaretz.com

Article

Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Satan - Wikipedia

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Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Morriston, W. (1996). God's answer to Job. Religious studies, 32(3), 339-356.

Article

Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Misery | The New Yorker

Article

Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)

Chappelle special

TV Show

Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?

Does Free Will Exist? Neuroscience Can't Disprove It Yet. - The Atlantic

Article

Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?

Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action by Benjamin Libet

Article

Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?

Neuroscience of free will - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?

Exhalation

Book - Ted Chiang

Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]

Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom

Short Story - Ted Chiang

Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]

Eddy Nahmias, Close calls and the confident agent: Free will, deliberation, and alternative possibilities - PhilPapers

Article

Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]

Exhalation

Book - Ted Chiang

Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Joker

Movie

Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Falling Down

Movie

Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom

Short Story - Ted Chiang

Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

What’s Expected of Us

Short Story - Ted Chiang

Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Batman: The Killing Joke

TV Show

Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Richard Brody Reviews 'Joker' | New Yorker

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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

People with high moral standards 'less likely' to be funny | The Independent

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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Why So Serious? Experimental and Field Evidence that Morality and a Sense of Humor are Psychologically Incompatible. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

The self-importance of moral identity. Journal of personality and social psychology, 83(6), 1423.

Article

Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

What's Expected of Us by Ted Chiang | Nature

Article

Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Mortal Questions

Book - Thomas Nagel

Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)

Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)

TV Show

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Article

Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)

Opinion | Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out - The New York Times

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation | Cosmos

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Nagel, T. (1971). Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness. /Synthese/, /22/(3), 396-413.

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

CGP Grey video - You Are Two

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Split brains - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Gazzaniga, M. S. (1995). Principles of human brain organization derived from split-brain studies. /Neuron/, /14/(2), 217-228.

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Split brain: divided perception but undivided consciousness | Brain | Oxford Academic

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Interaction in isolation: 50 years of insights from split-brain research | Brain | Oxford Academic

Article

Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Dennett, D. C. (2014). The self as the center of narrative gravity. In /Self and consciousness/ (pp. 111-123). Psychology Press.

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Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism

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Fiske, A. P. (2019). The lexical fallacy in emotion research: Mistaking vernacular words for psychological entities. Psychological review.

Article

Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism

Natural Kinds (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Article

Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism

The Zahir

Short Story - Jorge Luis Borges

Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")

El Zahir - Sufi theme in Jorge Luis Borges's writing | Technology of the Heart

Article

Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")

The Most Famous Coin in Borges

Article

Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")

Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 11

TV Show

Episode 179: Talking Shit

Trash-talking: Competitive incivility motivates rivalry, performance, and unethical behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 144, 125-144.

Article

Episode 179: Talking Shit

Trash-talking and trolling. Human Nature, 29(3), 353-369.

Article

Episode 179: Talking Shit

Rashomon

Movie

Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

When Your Lizard Brain Burns You Out And Short-Circuits Your Career

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Triune brain - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Cesario, J., Johnson, D. J., & Eisthen, H. (2019). Your Brain Is Not an Onion with a Tiny Reptile Inside.

Article

Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

David talks Watchmen on the Pretty Much Pop Podcast

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Tamler Sommers Talks Honor on Stoa Podcast

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Rashomon - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Rashomon (1950) | The Criterion Collection

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Rashomon | The Current | The Criterion Collection

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Rashomon Analysis - Rashomon's Problem with Truth | Topic

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Every Frame A Painting: The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - The Geometry of a Scene - YouTube

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Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement

Article

Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

High Life

Movie

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Midsommar

Movie

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Joker

Movie

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Under the Silver Lake

Movie

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Good Old Neon

Short Story - David Foster Wallace

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Watchmen

TV Show

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Homecoming

TV Show

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

What is Baby Yoda? | TechRadar

Article

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Keanu Reeves Is Too Good for This World | The New Yorker

Article

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

'Joker' is first R-rated movie to make $1 billion at global box office - Business Insider

Article

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Kanye West’s 'Jesus Is King' Divides the Christian Community | Time

Article

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

How Often Do Women Talk in Quentin Tarantino Films? | Time

Article

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

The Real Question | Fiction Writers Review

Article

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

The Generalizability Crisis

Article

Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through beta testing platforms - The Verge

Article

Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

The 20% Statistician: Review of 'The Generalizability Crisis' by Tal Yarkoni [Daniël Lakens' Blog]

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Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

In defense of external invalidity. American psychologist, 38(4), 379.

Article

Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

A Serious Man

Movie

Two Psychologists Four Beers

TV Show

TV Show

Gods And Victims | The New Yorker

Article

Richard Dawkins slammed for saying 'of course' eugenics would work - Washington Times

Article

MercatorNet: Twitter piles on Richard Dawkins over eugenics tweet

Article

Astros cheating scandal had to result in historic punishment - Sports Illustrated

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Sign-stealing [wikipedia.org]

Article

How Much Of The Astros’ Legacy Is Now In Doubt? | FiveThirtyEight

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Does José Altuve’s Bad Tattoo Explain His ALCS Home Run Celebration? - The Ringer

Article

The Astros’ Apology Tour Is Off to a Comically Disastrous Start - The Ringer

Article

Bonus Episode: Top 5 Deadwood Characters

Deadwood

TV Show

The Meritocracy Trap

Book - Daniel Markovits

Is Pansexuality Obligatory? – The Electric Agora

Article

In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell | Harper's Magazine

Article

“The Meritocracy Trap,” explained - Vox

Article

In Praise of Idleness

Essay - Bertrand Russell

Utilitarianism: A very short introduction

Book - Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer

The life you can save: How to do your part to end world poverty

Book - Peter Singer

A Very Bad Wizard

Book - Tamler Sommers

Are two spaces better than one? | Butterick’s Practical Typography

Article

Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary [thanks to listener Kevin Litman-Navarro]

Article

Peter Singer - Wikipedia

Article

A Gadfly for the Greater Good (Tamler's interview of Singer in his 'A Very Bad Wizard' book)

Article

Frontiers | Friends, Lovers or Nothing: Men and Women Differ in Their Perceptions of Sex Robots and Platonic Love Robots | Psychology

The Third Man

Movie

Episode 187: More Zither

Article

Episode 187: More Zither

Twilight of the Idols

Book - Friedrich Nietzsche

Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")

George Mason University investigation faults professor for sexual talk with students in class and a hot tub, court records show - The Washington Post

Article

Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")

Civilization and its Discontents

Book - Sigmund Freud

Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

Anal retentiveness - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

Anal expulsiveness - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

Psychosexual development - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

Civilization and Its Discontents - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

On Bullshit

Book - Harry Frankfurt

Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”)

On Bullshit

Article

Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”)

Would Politics Be Better Off Without Anger? | The Nation

Article

Episode 191: All the Rage

Srinivasan, A. (2018) The Aptness of Anger, Journal of Political Philosophy. Reprinted in the Philosopher’s Annual.

Article

Episode 191: All the Rage

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

Book - Jorge Luis Borges

Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

The Brothers Karmazov

Book - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

My Little Pony

TV Show

Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

'My Little Pony' Fans Confront Their Nazi Problem - The Atlantic

Article

Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

The Brothers Karmazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

Article

Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")

Repeating the “F” word can improve threshold for pain during an ice water challenge

Article

Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")

Frontiers | Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words | Psychology

Article

Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")

Very Bad Wizards has a new shirt! [CottonBureau.com]

Article

Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")

Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person by Harry Frankfurt

Article

Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")

The Story of God

Book - Chris Matheson

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

The Trouble with God

Book - Chris Matheson

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Friday

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Fantastic Planet

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

The Return of the Pink Panther

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Step Brothers

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

This Is the End

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Movie

Inherent Vice

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Playtime

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Spirited Away

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Dazed and Confused

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Jackie Brown

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Tin Men

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

TV Show

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

The Brothers Karamazov

Book - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")

Possible Girls

Article

Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy

Informal Teaching Advice

Article

Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Movie

Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life

Venus Might Host Life, New Discovery Suggests - Scientific American

Article

Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life

Pentagon forming a task force to investigate UFO sightings - CNNPolitics

Article

Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life

The Myth of Mental Illness

Book - Thomas Szasz

Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater

Article

Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")

Ferguson, Z. (2020). A song turned sideways would sound as sweet. Analysis.

Article

Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways

Markosian, N. (2020). Sideways music. Analysis, 80(1), 51-59.

Article

Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways

Hannan, S. (2018). Why childhood is bad for children. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 35, 11-28.

Article

Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways

Very Bad Wizards Episode 45: Rounded Brains and Balanced 'Play Diets'

TV Show

Hole -- from Wolfram MathWorld

Article

Davis, J.T.M., Hines, M. How Large Are Gender Differences in Toy Preferences? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Toy Preference Research. Arch Sex Behav 49, 373–394 (2020).

Article

Fine, C., & Rush, E. (2018). “Why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff?” The ethics and science of the gendered toy marketing debate. Journal of Business Ethics, 149(4), 769-784.

Article

Stove, D. (1990). The intellectual capacity of women.

Article

Help train your child's brain according to gender | Express.co.uk

Article

[OC] I asked 1.6k people how many holes certain objects have. : dataisbeautiful

Article

Conspiracy theory - Wikipedia

Article

Conspiracy Theories: Evolved Functions and Psychological Mechanisms - Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Mark van Vugt, 2018

Article

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories - Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M. Sutton, Aleksandra Cichocka, 2017

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Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom

Article

Rex 84 - Wikipedia

Article

The Great 5G Conspiracy - The Atlantic

Article

Episode 202: Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space")

The Colour Out of Space

Short Story - H.P. Lovecraft

Study links some forms of spiritual training to narcissism and 'spiritual superiority'

Article

Episode 202: Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space")

Gorgias

Book - Plato

Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)

Opinion | I Don’t Want You to ‘Believe’ Me. I Want You to Listen. - The New York Times

Article

Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)

What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?

Article

Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)

Gorgias (dialogue) - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)

Atlanta

TV Show

Episode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)

Who is 'Bean Dad'? Twitter users slam John Roderick for can opener stunt with his hungry daughter | Daily Mail Online

Article

Episode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)

An Apology — John Roderick

Article

Episode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)

The Principles of Psychology

Book - William James

Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

Scariest Movies of All Time - Based on Science! | The Science Of Scare | Broadbandchoices

Article

Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

New Study Finds that Delivering the News with Humor Makes Young Adults More Likely to Remember and Share | Annenberg School for Communication

Article

Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging

Article

Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

Chapter 4 Habit

Essay - William James

Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

Stories of Your Life and Others

Book - Ted Chiang

Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

Hell is the Absence of God

Short Story - Ted Chiang

Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

The Hard Problem of Breakfast - Issue 88: Love & Sex - Nautilus

Article

Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

Hell Is the Absence of God - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

Room 237

Movie

Episode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray

The Shining

Movie

Episode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray

Ex Colorado City mayor catching heat for comments about citizens affected by cold | KTAB - BigCountryHomepage.com

Article

Episode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray

The Revelations: A Novel

Book - Erik Hoel

Potato Head Tweet from Hasbro

Article

6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published for racist images

Article

David Pizarro on Twitter: 'Does anyone have a recommendation for a good paper on the psychology or philosophy of dreams (that isn't a Freudian/psychoanalytic) take? Would love a recent review of psych/neuro theories of dreams, or just an intriguing take on any aspect of dreaming.'

Article

Enter the Supersensorium | Erik Hoel

Article

The Overfitted Brain

Article

Erik Hoel's website

Article

The Principles of Psychology

Book - William James

Partner intimate touch is associated with increased interpersonal closeness, especially in non-romantic partners

Article

Circle of Willis (hosted by Jim Coan)

Article

Paul Bloom | Department of Psychology

Article

Richard Dawkins on Twitter: 'Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.'

Article

James, W. (1890) The Principles of Psychology, Chapter 24 (Instinct) [yorku.ca]

Article

Episode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)

The Quick Fix

Book - Jesse Singal

Ikiru

Movie

Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"

Dogs Mentally Represent Jealousy-Inducing Social Interactions - Amalia P. M. Bastos, Patrick D. Neilands, Rebecca S. Hassall, Byung C. Lim, Alex H. Taylor, 2021

Article

Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"

The Nose

Short Story - Nikolai Gogol

Episode 212: Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar)

Journal of Controversial Ideas

Article

Episode 212: Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar)

Stories by Ted Chiang

Book - Ted Chiang

Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

Neuroskeptic on Twitter: 'Bullshit ability is associated with an individual's intelligence'

Article

Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence - Martin Harry Turpin, Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Alexander C. Walker, Heather E. K. Walker, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Jennifer A. Stolz, 2021

Article

Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

Soma (video game) - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

SOMA Walkthrough- IGN

Article

Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

SOMA Review - IGN

Article

Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

SOMA and I | Blog of the APA

Article

Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)

Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images | Scientific Reports

Article

Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)

'I was shocked it was so easy': meet the professor who says facial recognition can tell if you're gay | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Article

Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)

One of the most famous campus outrage incidents was badly misreported - Vox

Article

Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)

“False positive” emotions, responsibility, and moral character - ScienceDirect

Article

Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)

Transformative Experience

Book - L.A. Paul

[Essay] History As End, By Matthew Karp | Harper's Magazine

Article

On Having Whiteness by Donald Moss

Article

Sean Wilentz: A Matter of Facts - The Atlantic

Article

The Vampire Problem: A Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Paradox of Transformative Experience – Brain Pickings

Article

Paul, L. A. (2015). Précis of Transformative Experience

Article

Pham, M. N., & Shackelford, T. K. (2013). Oral sex as infidelity-detection. Personality and Individual Differences, 54(6), 792-795.

Article

Clearer Thinking | How to apologise

Article

Schumann, K., & Dragotta, A. (2020). Is moral redemption possible? The effectiveness of public apologies for sexual misconduct. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90, 104002.

Article

Ohtsubo, Y., & Watanabe, E. (2009). Do sincere apologies need to be costly? Test of a costly signaling model of apology. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30(2), 114-123.

Article

I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies by Nick Smith :: SSRN

Article

Dan Harmon Apologizes for Sexually Harassing Megan Ganz | Time

Article

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Book - Thomas Kuhn

Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable? | Aeon Essays

Article

Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

The Splintered Mind: On the Epistemic Status of Deathbed Regrets

Article

Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific 'Truth' - Scientific American Blog Network

Article

Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

The Ashtray Has Landed: The Case of Morris v. Kuhn

Article

Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

Caché

Movie

Episode 218: ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché")

Emma Zunz

Short Story - Jorge Luis Borges

Borges and I

Short Story - Jorge Luis Borges

People who are willing to try new foods are perceived as more desirable and less sexually restricted

Article

Bradshaw, H. K., Mengelkoch, S., Espinosa, M., Darrell, A., & Hill, S. E. (2021). You are what you (are willing to) eat: Willingness to try new foods impacts perceptions of sexual unrestrictedness and desirability. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111082.

Article

Episode 220: On Your Marx

The Communist Manifesto

Book - Karl Marx

Estranged Labor

Book - Karl Marx

Episode 220: On Your Marx

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty - Data Colada

Article

Episode 220: On Your Marx

Norm Macdonald's Roast of Bob Saget

TV Show

Episode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords

Norm Macdonald's Moth Joke - YouTube

TV Show

Episode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords

Meditations On Moloch

Article

Episode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords

Too Much Free Time Isn’t Actually Bad For You

Article

Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind

Sharif, M. A., Mogilner, C., & Hershfield, H. E. (2021). Having too little or too much time is linked to lower subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Article

Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind

Existentialism is a Humanism

Essay - Jean-Paul Sartre

Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind

Persona

Movie

Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

The Closer

Movie

Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

Dave Chappelle’s ‘The Closer’ Is Not a Simple Victim-Bully Story - The Atlantic

Article

Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

Persona movie review & film summary (1967) | Roger Ebert

Article

Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

The Sweet Spot

Book - Paul Bloom

Episode 224: Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom)

The University of Austin (UATX)

Article

Episode 225: Forbidden Modules

Modularity of Mind (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Article

Episode 225: Forbidden Modules

Pietraszewski, David, and Annie E. Wertz. 'Why evolutionary psychology should abandon modularity.' Perspectives on Psychological Science (2021).

Article

Episode 225: Forbidden Modules

Primer

Movie

Episode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)

Hi-Phi Nation

TV Show

Episode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)

Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

TV Show

Artificial intelligence turns racist after learning from humans | Metro News

Article

Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

Ask Delphi

Article

Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

Very Bad Wizards Episode 91: Rage Against the Machines

Article

Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam Street

Article

Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

This is Water

Essay - David Foster Wallace

Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

Weird Studies Episode 73: Carl Jung and the Power of Art, Part One

TV Show

Bartolo, A., Ballotta, D., Nocetti, L., Baraldi, P., Nichelli, P. F., & Benuzzi, F. (2021). Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 5268.

Article

The Concept of the Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung

Article

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

Article

Liking What You See: A Documentary

Short Story - Ted Chiang

Episode 229: Skin Deep?

Is It Bad to Prefer Attractive Partners?

Article

Episode 229: Skin Deep?

Melancholia

Movie

Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity | PNAS

Article

Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

Landmark Poverty Experiment Shows Extra Money Changes Babies' Brains

Article

Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

M&Ms characters redesigned for a more dynamic, progressive world, Mars announces - CBS News

Article

Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

Mourning and Melancholia - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

Melancholia (2011 film) - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

Crash

Movie

Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Straw Dogs

Movie

Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Ted Lasso

TV Show

Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Räsänen, J. (2019). Moral case for legal age change. Journal of medical ethics, 45(7), 461-464.

Article

Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Of the Standard of Taste by David Hume (pdf)

Article

Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy section on Hume's Essay

Article

Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Of the Standard of Taste

Essay - David Hume

Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

The Shield

TV Show

Strawson, G. 'Realistic monism: Why physicalism entails panpsychism'

Article

Chalmers, D. 'Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism'

Article

Exchange between Galen Strawson and Daniel Dennett on the 'denial' of consciousness.

Article

Episode 233: Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1)

The Trial

Book - Franz Kafka

Psychologists want to talk Putin out of war with open letter - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

Article

Episode 233: Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1)

The Trial

Book - Franz Kafka

Episode 234: Like A Dog (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 2)

The Common Consent Argument for the Existence of Nature Spirits by Tiddy Smith

Article

Episode 235: Animated Objects

Peoples, H. C., Duda, P., & Marlowe, F. W. (2016). Hunter-gatherers and the origins of religion. Human Nature, 27(3), 261-282.

Article

Episode 235: Animated Objects

Ingold, T. (2006). Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought. Ethnos, 71(1), 9-20.

Article

Episode 235: Animated Objects

Severance

TV Show

Episode 236: Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom)

The female orgasm may have evolved as a mate-selection tool, according to new research

Article

Episode 236: Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom)

A Glitch in the Matrix

Movie

A Psychological Perspective on Vicarious Embarrassment and Shame in the Context of Cringe Humor

Article

Elon Musk should stop making that stupid sex joke about Tesla's car names - The Verge

Article

Indian Joker / Rizxtar | Know Your Meme

Article

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Short Story - Leo Tolstoy

Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia?

Article

Why You Need To Leave Academia - Cheeky Scientist

Article

Why I am leaving academia

Essay - Unknown

Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 239: Lose Yourself

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 239: Lose Yourself

Play and Intrinsic Rewards (1975) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Article

Episode 239: Lose Yourself

Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

Article

Moral Alignment Test

Article

The Concept of Evil (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Article

Moral Monsters and Saints by Daniel M. Haybron

Article

The Concept of Evil by Marcus Singer

Article

Episode 241: Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")

Eyes Wide Shut

Movie

A Seemingly Paradoxical Relationship Between Masturbation Frequency and Sexual Satisfaction | SpringerLink

Article

Episode 241: Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")

Introducing Sociology | Tim Kreider

Article

Episode 241: Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")

A Confession

Book - Leo Tolstoy

Episode 242: Losing My Religion

The Splintered Mind: Results: The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?

Article

Episode 242: Losing My Religion

Deadwood

TV Show

Bonus Episode: The Ambulators (A "Deadwood" Podcast)

Confession

Book - Leo Tolstoy

Episode 243: Finding My Religion

Enders, A., Farhart, C., Miller, J., Uscinski, J., Saunders, K., & Drochon, H. (2022). Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories?. Political behavior, 1-24.

Article

Episode 243: Finding My Religion

Collected Fictions

Book - Jorge Luis Borges

Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)

Funes the Memorious

Short Story - Jorge Luis Borges

Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)

Funes the Memorious - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)

A Case of Unusual Autobiographical Remembering

Article

Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)

The Little Mermaid

Movie

Matt Walsh Slammed For Saying Black 'Little Mermaid' Isn't 'Scientific'

Article

Pragmatism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Article

Rorty, R. (1985). Solidarity or objectivity. Post-analytic philosophy, 3, 5-6.

Article

The Two Fiduciary Duties of Professors - Heterodox Academy | Heterodox Academy

Article

Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")

SPSP DEI submission guidelines

Article

Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")

E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction

Essay - David Foster Wallace

Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")

Movie

Ye's 'death con 3' tweet

Article

Waking Up App

Article

2001: A Space Odyssey (film) - Wikipedia

Article

How Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey - Part 1: The Dawn of Man - YouTube

Article

Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper

Book - Arthur C. Clarke

Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper

Movie

Illusory checkmates: why chess is not a game | SpringerLink

Article

Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper

Things could be better by Adam Mastroianni & Ethan Ludwin-Peery

Article

Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")

The Sceptic

Essay - David Hume

Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")

Singing in the Rain

Movie

Deadwood

TV Show

The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor by George Lakoff

Article

George Lakoff - Wikipedia

Article

Conceptual metaphor - Wikipedia

Article

Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos

The Immortal

Short Story - Jorge Luis Borges

The banality of ChatGPT - by Erik Hoel

Article

Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos

On the Happy Life

Book - Seneca

Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can

Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever devised | Aeon Essays

Article

Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can

Seneca--On the Happy Life

Article

Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can

Stalker

Movie

Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild

Richardson, D. C., Devlin, J., Hogan, J. S., & Thompson, C. (2023). Small Penises and Fast Cars: Evidence for a Psychological Link.

Article

Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild

Aphantasia - Wikipedia

Article

Can't See Pictures in Your Mind? You're Not Alone. - The New York Times

Article

The Vividness Of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (the “aphantasia Test”)

Article

How To Be Good | The New Yorker (Profile on Derek Parfit by Larissa MacFarquar)

Article

Parfit, D. (1971) Personal Identity, The Philosophical Review, 80, 3-27.

Article

Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Piranesi

Book - Susanna Clarke

Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled - The New York Times

Article

Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript - The New York Times

Article

Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Article

Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

The meditative empathy of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi - Vox

Article

Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Piranesi’s Disenchanted World

Article

Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Susanna Clarke’s Fantasy World of Interiors | The New Yorker

Article

Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Psych (with Paul Bloom and David Pizarro)

TV Show

Episode 256: The Right to Punish?

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Insurrections | Essay

Article

Episode 256: The Right to Punish?

Murphy, J. G. (1973). Marxism and retribution. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 217-243.

Article

Episode 256: The Right to Punish?

Best-Selling Author & Harvard Professor Steven Pinker Will Transform His Ideas into NFTs | Blockster

Article

I Asked an Algorithm to Optimize My Life. Here's What Happened | WIRED

Article

The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan

Article

Marshall McLuhan - Wikipedia

Article

Marshall McLuhan Interview from Playboy (1969)

Article

Varieties of Religious Experience

Book - William James

Episode 258: Mystic Peeza

Tár

Movie

Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)

Paul Bloom on Twitter: 'I agree with this decision-nobody should force profs to use trigger warnings. But I'm mildly pro-TW and have used them in the past. It's often basic decency to warn people--and this includes students--before exposing them to shocking material.'

Article

Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)

Anna Karenina

Book - Leo Tolstoy

Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")

The Elephant Vanishes

Book - Haruki Murakami

Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")

Sleep

Short Story - Haruki Murakami

Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")

One word Turing test

Article

Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")

Book - Arthur C. Clark

2001

Movie

The Irishman

Movie

The Party is Canceled

Article

Authorial Intent

Article

Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")

Beyond Good and Evil

Book - Friedrich Nietzsche

Data Colada post about Gino fraud

Article

Episode 263: Free Yoel

No Country for Old Men

Book - Cormac McCarthy

Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")

No Country for Old Men

Movie

Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")

The illusion of moral decline

Article

Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")

Pinker & Bloom 1990

Article

Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

Dijksterhuis & Strick 2016

Article

Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

The Kekulé Problem

Essay - Cormac McCarthy

Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

James Steele's Tweet

Article

Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe

Caspi, A., Shmuel, E., & Chajut, E. (2023). A quantitative examination of half-belief in superstition. Journal of Individual Differences

Article

Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe

A Pluralistic Universe

Book - William James

Episode 267: The Thickness of Reality

Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?

Article

Episode 267: The Thickness of Reality

Blood Meridian

Book - Cormac McCarthy

Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1

Evidence that opposites don't attract

Article

Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1

Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits | Nature Human Behaviour

Article

Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1

Blood Meridian

Book - Cormac McCarthy

Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3)

Development and validation of a measure of passive aggression traits: the Passive Aggression Scale (PAS)

Article

Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3)

21 Questions to Identify a Passive-Aggressive Person

Article

Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3)

Blood Meridian

Book - Cormac McCarthy

Episode 269: Death Hilarious (Blood Meridian, Pt. 2)

CHEAT: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness

Article

Episode 269: Death Hilarious (Blood Meridian, Pt. 2)

Civic honesty around the globe

Article

Episode 269: Death Hilarious (Blood Meridian, Pt. 2)

Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible

Article

Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay

Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital

Article

Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay

Loneliness across time and space

Article

Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay

Spirited Away

Movie

Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away")

Do conversations end when people want them to?

Article

Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away")

Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research

Article

Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.

Article

Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force

Article

Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

Stop the Robot Apocalypse

Article

Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

The Aleph

Short Story - Jorge Luis Borges

Episode 275: The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph")

The Principles of Psychology

Book - William James

Episode 276: Attention Please

Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Fired

Article

Episode 276: Attention Please

William James chapter on Attention from Principles of Psychology (1890)

Article

Episode 276: Attention Please

When does “no” mean no? Insights from sex robots.

Article

Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")

Sexual perversion.

Article

Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")

Sexual Perversion

Essay - Thomas Nagel

Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")

The Elephant Vanishes

Book - Haruki Murakami

Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)

Burning

Movie

Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)

Barn Burning

Short Story - William Faulkner

Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)

Burning

Movie

Episode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2)

Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors

Article

A fascinating theory about the cultural influence of rice farming now has evidence of causality

Article

People quasi-randomly assigned to farm rice are more collectivistic than people assigned to farm wheat

Article

Large-scale psychological differences within China explained by rice versus wheat agriculture

Article

Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You

Oldboy

Movie

Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas

Article

Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You

The Children Who Remember Past Lives

Article

Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)

Ian Stevenson - criticisms

Article

Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)

The Problem of Induction

Article

Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)

Unfinished business: The problem of induction

Article

Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Movie

Season's mis-greetings: why timing matters in global academia

Article

Both Democrats and Republicans can pass the Ideological Turing Test

Article

The Ideological Turing Test

Article

Cognitive reflection and decision making

Article

A Validity Analysis of the Cognitive Reflection Test Using an Item-Response-Tree Model

Article

A reflection on cognitive reflection–testing convergent/divergent validity of two measures of cognitive reflection

Article

The formation and revision of intuitions

Article