More of a Comment Than a Question

OK, we may have a problem. Here, in this, our fourth attempt at a final episode, we welcome our friends from the excellent Nullius In Verba podcast Daniël Lakens and Smriti Mehta (yes THAT Smriti Mehta) to discuss why psychology is worthless. Or whether psychology is worthless. Something like that. Anyway, enjoy! This is the last one for sure...

Rachel had a baby! Paul left academia! It is all happening and we have the world exclusive scoop for you dear listeners in this ultra special super secret extra extra final episode of MOACTAQ. 

Super top secret bonus episode because Paul misses Rachel and because we can do what we want you're not the boss of us.

Rachel is leaving academia, and Paul is moving on to a new career stage, so we've decided to put the pod to rest. In this, our last pod, we make some final comments and send out some final thankyous as we cast MOACTAQ gently down the river. Be well, everyone.If you'd like to keep in touch you can contact us at:rachelxhartman@gmail.com, Twitter: @RachelXHartmanpaulrobertconnor@gmail.com, Twitter: @paulrconnor

Like almost everyone else, we are impressed and a little freaked out by recent advances in AI, particularly in the context of large language models like ChatGPT, so we invited our most AI-obsessed friends and family members (Luke Hartman from Tumult Labs Alex Kogan of Scholar Exchange) on the pod to talk about it. If you missed Alex's back story here's his wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kogan_(scientist) And here's a link to Luke's app top topic: https://www.toptopicapp.com/

We chatted with Professor Daniël Lakens from TU Eindhoven about his recent proposal for universities to require scientists to submit their proposed research to methodological review boards before data collection. Read Daniël's proposal hereAnd check out the recent PNAS on the surprising generalizability of results from non-representative samples here

In this episode we were joined by Steve Rathje, a postdoc at NYU, to discuss his research on how intergroup animosity drives virality on social media. Read Steve's work here, Facebook's response here, and Steve's response to the response here.

We were joined by Annalisa Myer, a grad student from CUNY graduate center, and Carlos Rebollar, lab manager of the Deepest Beliefs lab at UNC, to discuss mixing activism and science, and whether Carlos should go to grad school.The 80,000 hours website Rachel mentioned is hereJennifer Eberhart's book 'Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do' is here

We chatted with Professor Stuart Ritchie from Kings College London about the Queen's passing and the journal Nature Human Behaviour's plans to protect the world from harmful scientific findings. Follow Stuart on his substack or twitterRead about Nature Human Behaviour's new ethical guidelines here

In this episode we discuss academic Twitter's enfant terrible Tim Gill, and wade into some complex questions considering the Safe Faculty Project and student loan forgiveness. Follow Professor Gill (at your own risk) here: https://twitter.com/timgill924Check out the Safe Faculty Project here: https://www.safefacultyproject.org/about

We were joined by Professor Chris Ferguson of Stetson University to discuss his upcoming new book 'Catastrophe!: How Psychology Explains Why Good People Make Bad Situations Worse'  and whether Paul can join his Dungeons and Dragons game. Thankfully we (mostly) avoided discussing *that* Qualitative Research paper.

We welcome University of Miami postdoc Shane Littrell on the pod to discuss his research on bullshitting, Paul's pretentious website, and Thomas Chatterton Williams' bad week online.Find out more about Shane's research on his website here

In this episode we welcome marketing graduate student and TikTok celebrity Ethan Milne onto the podcast to talk about his social media fame, his research, an interesting incident at his Western University, the concept of 'elite capture,' and more. Follow Ethan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SEthanMilne and on TikTok at https://www.tiktok.com/@tallpsychology?lang=enThe hijab kiss incident: https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/western-university-lgbtq-poster-sparks-muslim-community-backlash/wcm/c1b69e57-a678-45a4-be94-bab4044b46bf/amp/

We discuss gun violence and mass shootings in the USA, as well as the debate around 'Great Replacement Theory.' Links:Cloud Research's Innovations in Online Research Conference: link Tweet thread from Professor Geoffrey Miller on gun control

We discuss the moral philosophy of abortion, and make a few comments about the public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Roe v Wade decision. Here's some data on the stability of public attitudes toward abortion since the 70s: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspxAnd here's some data about the relative prevalence of bi-sexuality and homosexuality: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/how-many-people-lgbt/

In this episode we are joined by famous podcaster Yoel Inbar (who we also found out is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto) to discuss a recent controversy surrounding this paper in PNAS, and the ethics of training machine learning models to judge and modify facial images in ways consistent with the stereotypical impressions of humans.We also briefly discussed the dumb stick-figure meme people have been talking about. Here are just a few pieces of research on people's ability to judge personality from physical appearance: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.994.7&rep=rep1&type=pdfhttps://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/000712606X109648https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-20823-006

We were joined by Cory Clark, director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project and visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss her research on ideological bias in science, adversarial collaboration, cheerleading, powerpoint, and more.Follow Cory on twitter here: https://twitter.com/ImHardcoryCheck out the Adversarial Collaboration Project here: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/adcollabproject/

We chatted with Aaron Moss, senior researcher at Cloud Research, about his recent paper on the ethics of using MTurk for behavioral research, conflicts of interest, global capitalism, and Will Smith. Read Aaron's paper here https://psyarxiv.com/jbc9d/Check out Cloud Research here https://www.cloudresearch.com/

We were joined by journalist and podcaster Katie Herzog to discuss her recent piece about an academic #metoo scandal that was not what it seemed. You can read Katie's piece here: https://reason.com/2022/03/14/how-an-academic-grudge-turned-into-a-metoo-panic/ and listen to the BARpod episode about it here: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-106-possibly-the-craziest?s=rFollow Katie on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzogPinned threads by the claimants:Jessica Cantlon: https://twitter.com/CantlonLab/status/952644834229211136?s=20&t=S3eZiKta5LD7RVRH0LwJTASteven Piantadosi: https://twitter.com/spiantado/status/1167918514851610624?s=20&t=S3eZiKta5LD7RVRH0LwJTAWeird website made by some unknown party concerning the case: https://thejaegercase.com/faq

In this episode we were joined by Ekaterina Damer, founder and CEO of the data collection website Prolific (https://www.prolific.co/) to discuss the numerous challenges involved in staring the company, online data collection, and international expansion. Rachel also went to bat for her employer Cloud Research (https://www.cloudresearch.com/) when discussing some recent research comparing data quality across multiple different platforms (https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-021-01694-3). 

In this episode we are joined by Sinan Alper, a professor of Psychology at Yaşar University in Turkey, to discuss psychological research in non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) contexts, and his work on the antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy theories.Follow Sinan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SinanAlper_ Some references:1. Paper showing people holding contradictory conspiracy beliefs (e.g. Princess Diana was assassinated but is nonetheless still alive): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19485506114347862. Civic honesty around the globe (Science paper testing frequency of returning lost wallets in different countries): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau87123. The backfire effect of debunking misinformation on Twitter: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.34456424. SInan's paper on the link between intuitive thinking and social conservativism in WEIRD/non-WEIRD contexts: http://journal.sjdm.org/18/181212/jdm181212.pdf

In this episode we respond to a disgruntled listener's critiques of our previous Rittenhouse-gate! episode, and discuss a controversial proposal on the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) listserv to form a group of non-oppressed oppression researchers. Links:Statement by graduate students of color at UNC concerning the pervasiveness of racism in the UNC psychology department: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L6J6Ee58JM338Fu89it_iKECeWdFWwSX60W6T3eC1r8/editA list of references we were pointed towards as additional evidence of racism within the UNC psychology department: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UmtHuW31UDoXfFe7LT26bnDVkGrB0DzpwroAD4QRW2U/editStatistics concerning the demographics of SPSP members: https://www.spsp.org/sites/default/files/Member-Diversity-Statistics-December-2019.pdfRacial Equity Tools' explainer on the reasoning behind racial affinity groups https://www.racialequitytools.org/resources/act/strategies/caucus-and-affinity-groupsShowing Up For Racial Justice's (SURJ) list of past actions taken by SURJ affinity groups https://surj.org/category/past-actions/Opinion piece: 'Please don't ask your Black friends to teach you about racism' https://theeverymom.com/dont-ask-your-black-friends-to-teach-you-about-racism/

In this episode we are joined by Paul Cernasov, a graduate student of clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina, to discuss a controversy within the UNC psychology department following an official email sent out to the department regarding the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. Here is the study Paul mentioned with regard to anti-Asian racism: https://virulenthate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Virulent-Hate-Anti-Asian-Racism-In-2020-5.17.21.pdf

In this episode we talked with Professor Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist from the University of Chicago whose views on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) led to the cancellation of a public lecture he was scheduled to give at MIT this autumn.  We discuss how Professor Abbot gradually became concerned enough about what he saw happening at his institution with regard to DEI that he felt compelled to raise a dissenting voice concerning on affirmative action and academic freedom. Here is a paper by Peter Arcidiacono of Duke University, whose work Professor Abbot references in the pod, which argues that affirmative action may harm its beneficiaries in many cases: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20130626 And here is Professor Arcidiacono talking on Glenn Loury's show about more of his research:https://twitter.com/glennloury/status/1307037150815420417?lang=hi

On this episode we are joined by Thomas Costello, a PhD candidate at Emory University, to discuss his work on the fascinating but under-studied construct of Left-Wing Authoritarianism. You can find Tom on twitter at https://twitter.com/tomstello_ and read more about his work at https://www.thcostello.com/

In this episode we are joined by air force veteran and 'professor in exile' Dave Porter to discuss the series of events that culminated in his termination from Berea College, Kentucky, and his ongoing lawsuit against the college alleging that Berea violated his and his students' academic freedom. Some more background on Dave's story can be found here: https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/07/why-did-a-christian-college-fire-a-tenured-professor/ A letter in support of Dave published by the National Association of Scholars can be found here: https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/an-open-letter-to-lyle-d-roelofs-president-of-berea-college

It's been a big week on psych twitter! Friend of the pod Nicole Barbaro returns to help us unpack all the drama surrounding the launch of Substack U (aka the University of Austin), as well as the fifty-ninth wave of the Great Tone Debate™Here is the University of Austin's website: https://www.uaustin.org/And here is the paper at the center of the last few days' controversy: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjso.12489

In this episode we are joined by Steven Zhou, a graduate student in I-O Psychology at George Mason University, to discuss personality types. good and bad science communication, and what a healthy skepticism of academic research looks like. 

In this episode, we try to unpack the notion of offensiveness, and discuss recent controversies at Yale and Netflix. What does it mean to find something offensive, and how should institutions handle situations in which individuals invoke the notion of offensiveness? 

In this episode we muse about one of the least popular opinions possible for an academic to have: is it possible that grad students are actually not underpaid? 

In this episode a microphone-less Paul and brand new co-host Rachel Hartman discuss the general weirdness that pervades academic mentorship and scientific training, and ask 'is there such a thing as a bad grad student?' Link to Project SHORT event 'Pre-Grad School - Finding the Right Program and Advisor Panel': https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-short-pre-grad-school-finding-the-right-program-advisor-panel-tickets-178209528497

On this episode I'm joined by Felix Cheung from the University of Toronto to discuss his research on population-level determinants of human well-being, why Hong Kong residents are so unhappy, and thew social scientific investigation of economic inequality. Find and follow Felix on twitter at https://twitter.com/felixckc?lang=en

Nicole Barbaro of WGU Labs and Utah Valley University joins the pod to dispel all my erroneous beliefs and misunderstandings about Attachment TheoryCheck out Nicole's website here https://nicolebarbaro.com/ , follow her on Twitter here https://twitter.com/NicoleBarbaro?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor , and subscribe to her substack here https://nicolebarbaro.substack.com/

In which I welcome back Rachel Ernstoff and Manuel Galvan from the University of North Carolina to discuss what everyone else seems to be discussing: Critical Race Theory (CRT), and Republicans' efforts to ban it from schools and workplaces. You can read about Raj Chetty's work on social mobility across racial and gender groups here: https://voxeu.org/article/race-and-economic-opportunity-united-states, and find evidence linking affirmative action bans to reduced incomes among Latinos here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3484530Follow Rachel on twitter at https://twitter.com/RErnstoff and at https://www.rachelernstoff.com/Follow Manny on twitter at https://twitter.com/MGalvanPsych and at https://scienceofsocialproblems.com/

I chat with Professor Lee Jussim of Rutgers University about ideological bias in science, academic freedom, social science as activism vs social science as truth seeking, and tennis.

I invite the amazing, intelligent, insightful Rachel Ernstoff back onto the pod to discuss 'Med-Gate,' - the court case concerning whether the University of Virginia violated the first amendment rights of expelled former UVA medical student Kieran Bhattacharya, and some more general discussion about how we should think about freedom of speech. Oh and Manuel Galvan showed up too. 

In this episode I talk with my friend Alex Kogan (formerly Alex Spectre), the former professor of psychology from Cambridge University who was embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018. If you want to know what really happened with Cambridge Analytica, or if you've ever wondered how a happy-go-lucky pro-sociality researcher could end up crashing Facebook's market value by $100 billion dollars, this is the episode for you.

Journalist, author, and podcaster Jesse Singal joins the pod to discuss his new book 'The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills.' We also discuss some of the controversy around his work on youth gender dysphoria. Order the book online here. You can also find Jesse on the 'Blocked and Reported' podcast, the 'Singal Minded' substack, and on twitter.

This week, we chat with fellow podcaster and social psychologist Mickey Inzlicht, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and co-host of Two Psychologists Four Beer (with Yoel Inbar). We talk about the advisor-graduate student dynamic, the past and future of social psychology, the replication crisis, and discuss some of the recent Psych Academic Twitter controversies. Two Psychologists Four Beers: https://www.fourbeers.com/Sexism and Racism on Campus (with Anne Wilson): https://www.fourbeers.com/58The COVID debate (with Robb Willer and Simine Vazire): https://www.fourbeers.com/53Lee's tweet: https://twitter.com/PsychRabble/status/1360973699822796802Turns out Hoegaarden is Belgian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoegaarden_Brewery

This week, we talk to Christopher Ferguson, a professor of psychology at Stetson University. We talk about his new book, How Madness Shaped History, American politics, cancel culture, and political polarization. Ferguson, C. J. (2020). How madness shaped history: An eccentric array of maniacal rulers, raving narcissists, and psychotic visionaries. United States: Prometheus Books. https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_Madness_Shaped_History/K-iQDwAAQBAJ?hl=en Ryan Long: When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything: https://youtu.be/Ev373c7wSRg

This week, we had to cut our conversation short with a fellow social psychologist-philosopher, Barry Schwartz, professor emeritus of psychology at Swarthmore College, and a visiting professor at Haas School of Business. We discuss Barry's recent paper Science, scholarship, and intellectual virtues. Schwartz, B. (2020). Science, scholarship, and intellectual virtues: A guide to what higher education should be like. Journal of Moral Education, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2020.1772211Some relevant TED talks by Barry:Using Your Practical Wisdom: https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_using_our_practical_wisdom?language=enOur Loss of Wisdom: https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_our_loss_of_wisdom/transcript?language=enCyanide and Happiness comic about science: https://explosm.net/comics/3557/#lIXOSa8dUTRXlpmY.16

This week, we chat with Don Moore, a professor in the Management of Organization group at the Haas School of Business, and author of Perfectly Confident. We talk about confidence, overconfidence, perseverance, the tall poppy syndrome, and share our favorite dad jokes. Don's book, Perfectly Confident: https://perfectlyconfident.com/

In our first episode of the new year, we're joined by Rachel Ernstoff, a social psychology graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill studying intergroup relations and political polarization. In this episode, Rachel shares her fascinating background with us, after which we discuss political polarization and the research around it, the recent attack the Capitol, and Trump's Twitter ban. Rachel's posts on The Pipettepen: http://www.thepipettepen.com/author/ernstofflive-unc-edu/Rachel's blog: https://rationalsnowflake.blogspot.com/ABC News, 24 Hours: Assault on the Capitol (available on Hulu): https://abcnews.go.com/US/attack-capitol-broken-24-hours-hulu-special/story?id=75184339Twitter's post on the suspension of @realDonaldTrump: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html

This week, we talk to Rob Chavez, an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. We discuss what social neuroscience is, how social psychology can inform neuroscience, and whether our understanding of the brain can have broader impacts on society. This is your Brain on Psychology – This is your Psychology on Brain (a guest post by Rob Chavez): https://thehardestscience.com/2018/11/30/this-is-your-brain-on-psychology-this-is-your-psychology-on-brain-a-guest-post-by-rob-chavez/Niv, Yael. (2020, October 22). The primacy of behavioral research for understanding the brain. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y8mxeConsciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips In additional to being a mathematician, Sir Roger Penrose is also a physicist and philosopher of science. He received the Nobel prize in Physics this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0&t=2s The structure that make up the mitotic spindles are microtubules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtubule

This week, we have an in-depth conversation with Kat (Kathryn) McCabe, a social ecologist and antiracism educator, about the modern antiracist movement and its potential impact on race relations.The Change Agency: https://www.thechangeagency.ieShort story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

This week, we discuss the recent controversy surrounding a Nature Communications paper that looks at informal mentorship, the gender of mentee/mentors, and subsequent scientific impact of the mentees. There has a been a call from the Twitter science community for the retraction of the paper. Edit: Smriti mentions that someone had tweeted and asked people to email the first author, but it was actually the EIC of Nature Comm: https://twitter.com/pollyp1/status/1329414989032157185Paper: AlShebli, B., Makovi, K. & Rahwan, T. (2020). The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance. Nat Commun 11, 5855. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19723-8Reviewer Comments: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-020-19723-8/MediaObjects/41467_2020_19723_MOESM2_ESM.pdfSome relevant twitter threads: Open letter to Nature Comm editor-in-chief: https://twitter.com/pollyp1/status/1329455882481131524https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1329471888180072452https://twitter.com/MGalvanPsych/status/1329798225331703811https://twitter.com/DaniSBassett/status/1329417981353467907https://twitter.com/tage_rai/status/1329475077071626240https://twitter.com/psmaldino/status/1329520846054989825https://twitter.com/daniela_witten/status/1329444294877384706https://twitter.com/DrBFreeman/status/1329559143884091392Ali G (Borat) at Cambridge University: https://youtu.be/-93MpfS5ptc?t=43

This week, we talk about the different responses to the election from the left, and what can be done to heal the growing political divide in this country. Greater Good Science Center, "Bridging Differences Playbook": https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/uploads/Bridging_Differences_Playbook-Final.pdfDerek Thompson, "The Most Important Divide in American Politics Isn’t Race": https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/2020-election-results-prove-density-destiny/617027/Matthew Yglesias, "Trump’s gains with Hispanic voters should prompt some progressive rethinking": https://www.vox.com/2020/11/5/21548677/trump-hispanic-vote-latinxCharles Blow, "Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/opinion/election-2020-exit-polls.htmlFreelance writer Tim Stone banned from Rock Paper Shotgun, https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1326240111609012224James Lindsey's tweet criticizing Jonny Sun's tweet criticizing empathy, https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1325474944445272065

This week, we talk to our friend Manuel (Manny) Galvan, a graduate student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about the election, political polarization in America, the excesses of the left, cancel culture, BLM/Defund the Police, and Manny's vision of a way forward. You can find Manny on Twitter @MGalvanPsych; his blog, The Science of Social Problems: https://scienceofsocialproblems.com/author/scienceofsocialproblems/; and The Pipettepen: http://www.thepipettepen.com/author/mjgalvan/Cancel culture Cancel culture is a significant issue for conservatives: https://theweek.com/articles/928464/cancel-culture-conservative-glass-housesTo some extent the morel panic over Cancel culture is a billionaire-funded operation: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/dark-money-behind-campus-speech-wars/https://prospect.org/justice/care-faux-free-speech-warriors-koch-brothers-paying-bills./https://fair.org/home/panic-over-cancel-culture-is-another-example-of-right-wing-projection/https://www.mediamatters.org/james-okeefe/conservative-dark-money-groups-infiltrating-campus-politics#crEmpirical evidence of a cancel culture “crisis” on college campuses:https://www.niskanencenter.org/there-is-no-campus-free-speech-crisis-a-close-look-at-the-evidence/https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/free-speech-crisis-revisited/Conservative overrepresentation on social media: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/censorship-conservatives-social-media-432643 Berkeley police biasCPE (Center for Policing Equity) report: https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Police/Level_3_-_General/CPE%20Draft%20Report%2007142017(2).pdfBerkeley students call for the defunding of the UCPD: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kyxmd0FpPfFjtogxAz_dgfv4LqmKAjOTw1mN_BvikKo/edithttps://www.dailycal.org/2020/07/23/racial-disparities-in-berkeley-police-stop-data-may-indicate-racial-bias/

Last week, we spoke to our very own faculty advisor, Serena Chen! Serena's the first Asian-American chair of UC Berkeley's Department of Psychology, and one of the most refreshingly candid academics out there. We discuss the recent paper on the future of women in psychological science, on which Serena is a co-author, along with many other female faculty at Berkeley Psych. We also talk about open science, social psych literature, and the future of academia. Gruber et al. (2020). The Future of Women in Psychological Science: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691620952789?journalCode=ppsa150 years of Women in Psychology at Berkeley: https://psychology.berkeley.edu/celebrating-150-years-women-psychology-berkeley

This week, we talk to Anne Scheel, a doctoral candidate at the Eindhoven University of Technology, about her upcoming paper Why Hypothesis Testers Should Spend Less Time Testing Hypotheses.Scheel, A.M., Tiokhin L., Isager, P.M., & Lakens, D. (in press). Why hypothesis testers should spend less time testing hypotheses. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://psyarxiv.com/vekpu/Kama Muta (a Sanskrit word!)Open-access versions of all papers (including the book chapter) on the website: kamamutalab.orgAnne's recommendation for a good place to start:Fiske, A. P., Seibt, B., & Schubert, T. (2019). The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It. Emotion Review, 11(1), 74–86. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073917723167Fiske, A. P., Schubert, T., & Seibt, B. (2017). ‘Kama muta’ or ‘being moved by love’: A bootstrapping approach to the ontology and epistemology of an emotion. In J. L. Cassaniti & U. Menon (Eds.), Universalism Without Uniformity: Explorations in Mind and Culture (pp. 79–100). University of Chicago Press. https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/16322

This week, we talk about the controversy over a blog by an anonymous person on Twitter, AlvaroDeMenard, about participating in "Replication Markets, a part of DARPA's SCORE program, whose goal is to evaluate the reliability of social science research."The thread about this on Twitter elicited a response from an editor at Science, Tage Rai, and consequently, multiple responses to that from the Open Science community. Original thread by @AlvaroDeMenardhttps://twitter.com/AlvaroDeMenard/status/1304399437641461760Associated Blog: https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/Tage Rai's Responsehttps://twitter.com/tage_rai/status/1304985745157914624Some notable responses to TageBrian Nosek: https://twitter.com/BrianNosek/status/1305319912613838850Fiona Fidler: https://twitter.com/fidlerfm/status/1305372732889026560Simine Vazire: https://twitter.com/siminevazire/status/1305703047096532993Paul Meehl's lecture (starts at 46:13): https://youtu.be/7vx-A8P1BIw?t=2773