Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2019
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Is social psychology just a kid dressing up in grown-up science clothes? Are the methods in social psychology--hypothesis-driven experiments and model-building--appropriate for the state of the field? Or do these methods lead to a narrowing of vision, stifled creativity, and a lack of informed curiosity about the social world> David and Tamler discuss the strong methodological critique of psychology from two of its leading practitioners - Paul Rozin and Solomon Asch.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.3 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:30.0 | The lady on his phone says, |
| 0:34.0 | a new attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:43.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:45.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:47.0 | I'm a very bad man. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:50.0 | Good man. |
| 0:54.0 | Placing hate thoughts, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:58.0 | They do attention to my man. |
| 1:04.0 | Anybody can have a brain? |
| 1:08.0 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:10.0 | They're a very good man. |
| 1:12.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:19.0 | Dave, today we're going to tackle some big meta questions about the way we conduct scientific research. |
| 1:26.0 | Would you call this episode methodology porn? |
| 1:30.0 | I don't think anybody will get the enjoyment that was required with the word porn next to it. |
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