25: The Little Albert Experiment (with Josh Winslade)
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The Sci Guys
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, The Sci Guys educate Josh about an infamous 1920’s study involving a rat, a Santa mask, and terrorising a small child.
References and Further Reading
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25068585
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25197838
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28125246
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26307-baby-used-in-notorious-fear-experiment-is-lost-no-more/
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03395082
- https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Watson/emotion.htm
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15328023top0401_12?journalCode=htop20
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| 0:00.0 | There is a content warning for this episode. You can find it in the description. Right, guys, gonna start the show this week with a review. Ooh. It says, I binge this podcast, and it is from Alice Blondie. And it says, this podcast is amazing. The perfect balance of science, nerdiness, and banter. Thanks. That's the banter from me and James. All the banter. Yeah, all the science and nerziest comes from Corey. No banter. |
| 0:24.0 | None. Banta. Thanks. That's the banter from me and James. Congratulations. Yeah, all the science and nerseous comes from Corey. No banter. It makes me realize that my A-level science was not a complete waste of time. I do remember some stuff. Really recommend Cher Noble episodes. If you haven't heard the show Noble episode, head on back in time. Sure, that. Shall I start the show? Do you want to start the show? |
| 0:38.3 | Do you want to start the show? |
| 0:39.3 | I'm going to start the show in a different way this week, and there is a reason. |
| 0:41.3 | So, James, run the music. |
| 0:43.3 | Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of the Sci Guys, where the three of us, James O'Neill, |
| 0:55.8 | Corrie, and I, Luke, come forth bring together the crazy, weird, and wonderful stories from |
| 0:59.8 | the science world. |
| 1:01.0 | And this week, we have a very special guest, Josh Wensley! |
| 1:05.0 | Woohoo! |
| 1:10.0 | That was so hard not to talk. |
| 1:15.5 | If you don't know, James and I used to do a show with Josh called Educating Josh, and he's |
| 1:19.4 | staying with me this week, and we just thought, let's just get him in for a guest episode. |
| 1:23.1 | And now I will throw it back to Corey to host the podcast that he hosts. |
| 1:26.7 | That was our intro from our old podcast, by the way, if you didn't know. |
| 1:31.3 | Way to explain the joke. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.3 | Today we'll be talking about furry phobias and straight up child abuse. |
| 1:37.3 | Oh my God. |
| 1:38.3 | It's going to be a very fun episode. |
| 1:40.3 | What's the opposite of straight up child abuse? You know, tepid. Tepid. Tepid. Oh, I am so comfortable with this episode in this license. Luke warm, lukewarm child abuse. Oh, I don't want my name next to sound. Sorry, this is just my fault, isn't it? Child abuse is all of your fault, yeah. I've already made the podcast worse, guys. You just call it warm, child. |
| 2:01.6 | Yeah. |
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