#665 - Cory Clark - 5 Forbidden Topics That Psychology Won’t Discuss

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Cory Clark is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a social psychologist and an author. Academia is supposed to be a bastion of intellectual purity where curiosity and the truth reign supreme. But what happens when the findings of research start to become inconvenient? What happens when conclusions may be scientifically accurate, but politically incorrect? Expect to learn what happens when you conduct a study on self-censorship in academic psychology and get reported for it, whether pervasive misogyny is actually a myth, why there is such an apparent anti-female bias, how women have fundamentally changed the culture of academia, whether men are psychologically different because of the patriarchy, which two areas of psychology are the most hated by academia and much more... Sponsors: Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 4.0 at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 20% OFF with our code MODERNWISDOM at https://calderalab.com/modernwisdom to unlock your youthful glow and be ready for summer with Caldera + Lab! Extra Stuff: Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show.
0:02.9	My guest today is Corey Clark. She's an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania,
0:07.4	a social psychologist, and an author.
0:10.4	Academia is supposed to be a bastion of intellectual purity,
0:14.0	where curiosity and truth reign supreme.
0:16.8	But what happens when the findings of research start to become inconvenient?
0:21.6	What happens when conclusions may be scientifically accurate,
0:25.1	but politically incorrect?
0:27.1	Expect to learn what happens when you conduct a study on self-santorship in academic psychology
0:32.4	and get reported for it, whether pervasive misogyny is actually a myth,
0:37.2	why there is such an apparent anti-female bias,
0:40.1	how women have fundamentally changed the culture of academia,
0:43.3	whether men are psychologically different because of the patriarchy,
0:46.9	which two areas of psychology are the most hated by academics, and much more.
0:54.3	Had a real difficult time titling this episode because it goes absolutely everywhere.
0:59.2	Corey is very interesting in this study that she has done on self-santorship
1:03.7	amongst every psychology professor in the United States got invited to do it,
1:09.6	is so interesting and so telling.
1:12.0	And the two topics that come up as the most cancelable and the most despicable are two that I talk
1:18.9	about all the time on this podcast. I'm not really too sure what that says about me.
1:22.4	Anyway, loads and loads of interesting stuff today.
1:24.6	I really, really hope that you enjoyed this one.
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