Episodes

  • S1E6 Milgram's Shock Study: 40 Men from New Haven

    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 hr and 39 mins
  • S1E5 The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Al Frankin has Jokes

    S1E5 The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Al Frankin has Jokes
    Dec 11 2023

    Martin takes over the research in this episode and shares the paper introducing the Dunning-Kruger effect examining incompetency and competency assessment. It's quartiles all the way down.
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • S1E4 Kiki and Bouba: Brush up on your German

    S1E4 Kiki and Bouba: Brush up on your German
    Nov 27 2023

    Cristina shares papers across hundreds of years to try and find the origin point of the Kiki/Bouba phenomenon, involving blob fanfic and 1800s academic German
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • S1E3 Harry Harlow: What are mothers made of?

    S1E3 Harry Harlow: What are mothers made of?
    Nov 13 2023

    Cristina and Martin read The Nature of Love, a study by Harry Harlow famous for generating many pictures of sad baby monkeys and introducing us all to the concept of wire mothers.
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Little Albert: Noise Metal for Babies

    Little Albert: Noise Metal for Babies
    Oct 30 2023
    In the second episode, Martin and Cristina read the study of Little Albert, a paper regarded as the foundation of behaviorism and an early demonstration of classical conditioning in human subjects.
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Phineas Gage - Half a Teacup of Brains

    Phineas Gage - Half a Teacup of Brains
    Oct 16 2023

    In the inaugural episode, Martin and Cristina read the primary literature written about Phineas Gage, a railroad worker who miraculously survived an iron rod passing through his head.
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    58 mins