Interview with Daniël Lakens and Smriti Mehta on the state of Psychology

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2023

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

We are back with more geeky academic discussion than you can shake a stick at. This week we are doing our bit to save civilization by discussing issues in contemporary science, the replication crisis, and open science reforms with fellow psychologists/meta-scientists/podcasters, Daniël Lakens and Smriti Mehta. Both Daniël and Smriti are well known for their advocacy for methodological reform and have been hosting a (relatively) new podcast, Nullius in Verba, all about 'science—what it is and what it could be'.

We discuss a range of topics including questionable research practices, the implications of the replication crisis, responsible heterodoxy, and the role of different communication modes in shaping discourses.

Also featuring: exciting AI chat, Lex and Elon being teenage edge lords, feedback on the Huberman episode, and as always updates on Matt's succulents.

Back soon with a Decoding episode!

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0:00.0	You're going to. Hello. Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's the podcast
0:26.9	or an anthropologist of a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the world has to
0:30.6	offer and we try to understand what they're talking about.
0:33.0	I am Professor Matthew Matthew Brown and with me is Associate Professor Chris Kavanaugh.
0:37.0	Well thank you for giving me my appropriate title,
0:40.0	Matt. I didn't want to say, I mean, steering and that.
0:44.2	People did notice that occasionally I give myself a title.
0:48.7	I refer to myself as Professor Brown
0:50.9	and just call you, plain old Chris Kavanaugh.
0:53.4	Look at that. What's that, hint at?
0:57.4	What disrespect?
0:58.4	It is of course deliberate.
1:00.0	My strategy with you Chris is, um this little thing called variable ratio, random reinforcement
1:06.9	conditioning and I think it's better to dole out these little tokens of respect for good behavior.
1:14.0	Did you know?
1:16.0	A stick in the way, keep me way.
1:19.0	That would work were I to ever notice.
1:23.0	But I think the only time I've ever noticed is it when you've called me an
1:30.0	ass prof.
1:31.0	That's, I got my intent out. You are an ass prof, Chris. Admit it. You know you are. You don't need to emphasize that. I appreciate that there are other people out there looking out for me my you're you and your senior
1:46.3	academic casual this by man I it's so part of my dear life I don't even notice it that these tenured freaks you're like a beaten dog you know you just you know everything
1:58.8	electrified floor you've stopped even trying to get off it, you know. You've given up. You don't, no hope of getting any respect.
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