Special Episode: Interview with Jesse Singal on Quick Fix Psychology

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Another week and another extra special interview with journalist, podcaster, and Twitter outrage lightning rod, Jesse Singal.

We discuss his new book on Quick Fix psychology, the fallout of the replication crisis, and why we should be skeptical of anyone peddling simple 'one size fits all' solutions to complex social & psychological problems.

We have a fun wide ranging discussion covering social media dynamics, the dangers of audience capture, and the goddamn lab leak hypothesis! We also discover the dictionary definition pedantism and abuse Jesse with unending uncomfortable questions about culture war controversies.

Jesse provides keen insight and is a good sport when it comes to critical topics, we really enjoyed having him on and hope you guys enjoy the result!

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0:00.0	The Hello and a
0:15.0	welcome to Decoding the Guru's. It's the podcast. We're an anthropologist and a psychologist
0:22.0	listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try our very best to understand what they're talking about.
0:27.0	I'm Professor Matt Brown and with me is Associate Professor Chris Kavanaugh.
0:32.0	Who are we? What's our deal? Well... Associate Professor Chris Kavanaugh.
0:33.0	Who are we?
0:33.6	What's our deal?
0:34.5	Well, we're like the odd couple
0:36.1	if one of the characters was a grumpy, combative Irishman.
0:39.5	Welcome, Chris.
0:41.1	No, I'm impressed with your impromptu intro.
0:44.0	I thought you didn't have one ready, so that's just impressively off the cuff.
0:50.0	But yeah, good morning, Matt. How's it going pretty well? Now as you know, sometimes just sometimes we have special guests on who are going to help us figure out what is true beautiful and real in this crazy mixed up world and today is one of those days. Who have we got with us today, Chris? We have Jesse Single, offer,
1:17.3	podcaster, journalist, internet, hero, legend. I thought you guys were going to say sometimes we have special guests,
1:26.7	sometimes we have average guests like today. No no no all of our guests are very special to us and also I think it's fair to say that you're probably our least controversial guest.
1:41.2	Jesse, you manage to just avoid any of the road bumps on the internet.
1:45.8	So that's refreshing.
1:48.1	That's what I'm known for.
1:49.3	So the other thing is that you have a book which is not new. I guess it's close to new. It's a couple of months out the quick things which you kindly shared with us and I'm sure Matt judifully read everything and has his notes for each chapter
2:07.2	ready. Right Matt? I have quite a few notes actually.
2:10.7	You'll be surprised Chris. Well I think we originally I can't remember if we
2:16.7	invited you before you had your book or not but with the book it seems there's a lot of overlap with our interest because we are
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