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Decoding the Gurus

The Replication Crisis Christmas Quiz w/ Mickey Inzlicht & Dave Pizarro

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Leisure, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In this festive descent into methodological despair, Chris and Matt convene a secret cabal of elite psychology podcasters within the Decoding Cloister, operating under the distant yet reassuring gaze of Arch-Wizard Paul Bloom, whose role is largely ceremonial but nonetheless morally binding.

Joining them are Dave Pizarro (Very Bad Wizards) and Michael Inzlicht (Two Psychologists Four Beers, emeritus), for what can only be described as an end-of-year audit of social psychology’s moral character.

What follows is a mixture of intense hubris, disciplinary self-loathing, and revolutionary insights, delivered via one of the most sadistic Christmas quizzes ever devised. The quiz format allows the episode to do what psychology does best: create the feeling of measurement while hovering dangerously close to intuition.

Alongside the quiz, we engage in some meta-commentary and sensemaking reflections on audience capture and the state of psychology-themed podcasts in 2025. In other words, it’s Christmas, so naturally everyone is discussing perverse incentives, damaged reputations, and the slow moral corrosion of institutions.

So join us, won’t you? For the first International Congress on Psychology-Themed Podcasting and Gurus…

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0:00.0

I'm Hello and welcome to the coding the gurus.

0:30.2

A very special addition today.

0:34.3

Joining me, as usual, is the elder statement of the podcast, Matthew Brown, psychologist,

0:40.2

extraordinaire. Though this time, he's not the only legitimate. It's like, oh, and I'm Chris. Yeah,

0:46.6

I'm an anthropologist slash psychologist, right? But we don't, everybody knows that. The other thing is

0:53.4

lurking in the shadows, summoned a secret cabal of

0:58.7

superstar psychology podcasters has gathered in our little decoding cloister. I summoned them

1:05.6

today under the instructions of the Arch Wizard Paul Bloom. He conducts everything from afar. And we have

1:13.1

summoned the superstars of the psychology podcasting world to take stock of things. Now, the majority

1:19.1

could not attend because they had better things to do. So you might be like, well, what about all these

1:24.9

other people? But we have with us, Dave Pizarro from the very bad wizards.

1:31.0

And Mickey Inslicht, formerly, but still sort of honorary to psychologists for beers,

1:37.0

both psychologists, Dave Pizarro, moral psychologist and social psychologist.

1:43.1

And Mickey Inslich, social psychologist and experimental

1:46.5

psychologist. That's what I'm going to say. So thank you both for coming. Thank you for joining us.

1:52.9

Thank you for having us. I will say, much like the rest of my career, this, it's built on Paul Bloom saying no to things.

2:05.6

And then suggesting mine.

2:08.6

Just to be clear. I assume Paul would say no.

2:13.2

I like how you introduced us, though, as the superstars of the psychology podcasting world. I think this is it. I think we're in. I thought there are too many others. It's a small pond. It's a small pond, but, you know, yeah, the four of us are big fish. I mean, Scott Barry Kaufman stopped doing his. That's true. Well, that's why someone did you hear. The pie just got bigger for us.

2:36.0

It's a kind of crisis meeting.

2:38.0

What are we going to do?

2:39.0

Scott Barry's out of the game.

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