Episodios

  • S2E7 Stanford Prison Experiment: A priest, a lawyer, and a professor walk into a prison.
    Jan 31 2025

    Part 2/2 of our miniseries on the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Zimbardo in 1971.

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    1 h y 22 m
  • S2E6 Stanford Prison Experiment: Let's go bestie, we're building a prison.
    Jan 17 2025

    Martin and Cristina talk about the famous Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Zimbardo in 1971. Part 1 of 2.

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    1 h y 7 m
  • S2E5 Spinal Anesthesia: August and August have a date.
    Jan 3 2025

    In this episode, Cristina covers an early paper on spinal anesthesia in which two German men inject cocaine into each others spinal columns.

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    1 h y 50 m
  • S2E4 Loftus Memory Studies: Do you remember your car crash?
    Dec 20 2024

    Cristina presents the original Loftus memory study of car crashes, taught to every intro to psychology class since 1974. The study is often cited as proof that witness testimony at trials can be faulty and shouldn't be trusted, but how was the study actually conducted?

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    1 h y 13 m
  • S2E3 The Bystander Effect: TV made us zombies
    Dec 6 2024

    In this episode, Cristina presents the history behind the bystander effect and how the murder of Kitty Genovese led to studies of prosocial behavior.

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    2 h y 3 m
  • S2E2 Dale Spender: Hiding in Bushes with Recorders
    Nov 22 2024

    In this episode, Cristina and Martin try to find the original study that found men think women are speaking an equal amount when women speak 15% of the time and men think women dominate conversations when they speak 30% of the time.

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    1 h y 42 m
  • S2E1 Pavlov: No Bell Nobel
    Nov 9 2024

    In this episode, Martin and Cristina talk about the very famous conditioning studies of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Every student who has ever opened their psychology textbook has seen a diagram of a dog salivating at the sound of a bell, but did that ever actually happen? Was Pavlov the first scientist to describe classical conditioning?

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    1 h y 30 m
  • S1E6 Milgram's Shock Study: 40 Men from New Haven
    Dec 26 2023

    In the Season 1 finale, Cristina and Martin discuss the famous shock experiments from Stanley Milgram, contemporary and recent criticisms of his work, and William Shatner for some reason.

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    1 h y 39 m