12 December 2019: Social priming, and acoustic science
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🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this episode:
00:45 What’s next for social priming?
How might a branch of psychological research move forward in the face of replication failures? News Feature: What’s next for psychology’s embattled field of social priming
08:55 Research Highlights
Killer-whale grandmothers help their grandchildren survive, and the failed voyage of a reproduced ancient raft. Research Highlight: Why female orcas make killer grandmas; Research Highlight: On a model ancient raft, seafarers are up the current without a paddle
11:12 The sounds of science
We hear the latest updates from the Acoustical Society of America's recent conference.
18:44 News Chat
Reassessing when civilisations moved to modernity, and understanding exoplanets. News: When did societies become modern? ‘Big history’ dashes popular idea of Axial Age; News: European space telescope to launch new era of exoplanet science
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| 0:00.0 | Yes! I just can't believe! |
| 0:02.4 | This Christmas, you could be a millionaire. |
| 0:05.2 | Get your lotto ticket for tonight's draw. |
| 0:07.0 | The National Lottery. |
| 0:07.9 | Rules and procedures apply. |
| 0:08.8 | Players must be 18 or over. |
| 0:14.3 | Nature. |
| 0:16.8 | In an experiment, we don't know yet. |
| 0:18.5 | Why is it so far? |
| 0:20.4 | Like, it sounds so simple. |
| 0:21.6 | They had no idea. |
| 0:23.1 | But now the data's... |
| 0:24.3 | I find this not only refreshing, but at some level, astounding. |
| 0:32.0 | Nature. |
| 0:35.9 | Welcome back to the Nature podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | This week, the state of play for social priming... |
| 0:42.1 | And all the latest sounds from a big acoustic meeting in the US. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm Nick Howe. |
| 0:46.8 | And I'm Benjamin Thompson. |
| 1:06.0 | Thank you. First up on this week's show, there's a feature out in nature this week, about a branch of psychology research called social priming. |
| 1:18.0 | Science writer Tom Chivers has been looking at the history of social priming and some of the big claims made in early experiments, which in many cases have failed to stand the test of time. |
| 1:25.9 | He popped into the studio for a chat earlier this week, and I started by asking him what exactly social priming is. |
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