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BONUS: "Best" of Opinion Science (2023)
2 januari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
Happy New Year! For the first time in the show's history, this episode's a day late. Sorry, dear listeners. Lees meer
So it's 2024, and what better way to kick off the new year than to dive into some nostalgia for 2023 already? As has become tradition around here, I compiled some clips of favorite moments on the podcast from the last year. As I say every year, it’s not truly a “best of” per se because I really am attached to every episode. Instead, I’ve chosen some clips that highlight the kind of show this is, including some of the things that made this year especially special.
If you’re new to the show, this is a great place to start! And if you’ve been listening since the beginning, join me on some fun memories from this year.
-Andy
Featured 2023 episodes:
Episode 72: Fighting Against Misinformation with Sander van der Linden
Episode 77: Opinions in the Brain with Uma Karmarkar
Episode 83: The Fundamental Nature of Opinion with Russ Fazio
Episode 85: Having Curious Conversations with Mónica Guzmán
SciComm Summer #18: Alie Ward on Making Ologies
SciComm Summer #19: Latif Nasser on Making Radiolab
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#88: Studying Happiness with Liz Dunn
18 december 2023 · 53 min
Elizabeth Dunn studies the psychology of happiness. One of her major research areas has looked at generosity's effects on well-being. We're happier when we spend money on other people. But studying happiness has its challenges, especially if we want to build strategies that help people feel happier. So, she shared a snapshot of her research on happiness and a new paper with Dunigan Folk looking at how strong the evidence is for different happiness-boosting strategies. Lees meer
Things that come up in this episode:
A big social experiment through the TED organization to see what people do when they receive $10,000 (Dwyer & Dunn, 2022; Dwyer et al., 2023)
The benefits of generosity for our well-being (see Dunn et al., 2020; also see Episode 23 with Lara Aknin)
Digging deep into the research on happiness to see how strong the evidence is for happiness-boosting strategies (Folk & Dunn, 2023; also Folk & Dunn, 2024)
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#87: How Juries Decide with Mikaela Spruill
4 december 2023 · 56 min
Mikaela Spruill studies juries and the legal system’s role in sustaining social inequalities. She’s a postdoctoral fellow in criminal justice with SPARQ at Stanford University. In our conversation, Mikaela shares the benefits and drawbacks of juries in the courtroom, how scientists study jury decision-making, and how jurors apply very specific legal standards to interpreting the facts of a case. Lees meer
Things that come up in this episode
A very brief history of juries (Alschuler & Deiss, 1994; Carey, 1994; Massachusetts Office of Jury Commissioner)
A summary of early research in jury decision-making (Devine et al., 2001) and the University of Chicago Jury Project (Broeder, 1959; Cornwell, 2010)
The quick clip in the intro (“I’m just saying a coincidence is possible”) is from the 1957 film, 12 Angry Men.
A summary of research on jury decision-making (Spruill & Hans, in press)
How jurors apply the “objectively reasonable” standard to interpreting the facts of a case (Spruill & Lewis, 2022; 2023)
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#86: Framing Political Issues with James Druckman
20 november 2023 · 58 min
James Druckman studies how political messages can shape people's opinions. He is maybe best known for his work on framing issues as a strategic communication strategy. He also has a recent paper on "a framework for the study of persuasion," which organizes the many variables that matter for persuasion. Lees meer
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#85: Having Curious Conversations with Mónica Guzmán
6 november 2023 · 52 min
Mónica Guzmán wants us to have better conversation with the people we disagree with. She's the Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels, and in 2022, she released her book, "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times." This year, she launched a brand new podcast called "A Braver Way," which is about how we can disagree about politics without losing heart. We talk about how to have curious conversations, why we would want to do so, and how we can learn from other peoples' example. Lees meer
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#84: Moral Lessons in Media with Lindsay Hahn
23 oktober 2023 · 59 min
Lindsay Hahn studies how entertainment media convey moral messages, especially among children. She's an assistant professor of communication at the University at Buffalo, where she leads the Media Psychology and Morality Lab. We talk about her background, how her team surveys media for the moral lessons they communicate, and how her new work is turning an eye to terrorist propaganda. Lees meer
Things that come up in this episode:
Mr. Rogers' testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
Content analyses of children's entertainment media (Aley et al., 2021; Hahn, 2022; Hahn et al., 2022a)
Effects of media on children's and adolescents' morality (Hahn et al., 2022b; 2022a)
Analyses of terrorist propaganda (Hahn et al., 2023b)
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#83: The Fundamental Nature of Opinion with Russ Fazio
9 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 18 min
Russ Fazio has spent his career getting to the bottom of how opinions work. From his first study as a college student in 1974 to a leading expert in basically everything, his work has had a deep impact on the field of social psychology (and communication and political science...) His research over the years has included game-changing work on cognitive dissonance, implicit bias, automatic cognition, negativity biases, and the relationship between attitudes and behavior. Lees meer
How to cover a whole career in one podcast episode!? We stick to a few highlights. Russ shares some of his earliest work that leapt on a real-world challenge to test basic theoretical ideas, how he was able to push the boundaries of technology to examine how opinions spring to mind automatically, and how a creative video game about beans can reveal deep truths about the human condition.
This episode was recorded in person at the WOSU studios! Shout out to them for making the process so easy.
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#82: Having Political Conversations with Taylor Carlson
25 september 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
Taylor Carlson studies how people navigate political discussions. She does a bunch of interesting work, but I was most interested in talking with her about book she published with Jaime Settle last year. It’s called What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America. In it, they report their findings from a variety of surveys and experiments and organize them into a four-step model of political discussion. Lees meer
I talked to Taylor about how she got interested in this area, how the book makes sense of how people approach talking politics with others, and what the future holds.
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#81: Moral Language with Morteza Dehghani
11 september 2023 · 55 min
Morteza Dehghani is a psychologist and computer scientist who uses sophisticated analytics to churn through the words we use when we talk to each other. From that, he and his colleagues can get an idea of people’s moral sensibilities and the consequences of letting morality imbue our opinions on important issues. We talk about his origins in the field and the key insights he's come to about people's moral sense. Lees meer
In the intro, I talk about Toki Pona--the world's smallest language. You can find more at the official Toki Pona website.
I also mentioned interesting work on morality, language, and culture by Emma Buchtel (e.g., Buchtel et al., 2015; Buchtel, 2022).
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#80: Don't Get Fooled Again with Dan Simons & Chris Chabris
28 augustus 2023 · 52 min
Dan Simons and Chris Chabris are psychological scientists who care about attention and reasoning. They're probably best known for their groundbreaking experiments on "inattentional blindness" where they built a scenario in which people would look straight at someone in a gorilla costume and not even know it. The point is: for as smart as we are, we miss a lot of stuff. And it's not just gorillas. Lees meer
Dan and Chris have a new book out on the psychology behind why people fall prey to scams and cons. It's called: Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It. It's a fun read, full of stories of swindlers and cheats and the science behind how we get taken in by them. We talk about how Dan and Chris became partners in science and what they've learned about the psychology of attention and reasoning.
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SciComm Summer #19: Latif Nasser on Making "Radiolab"
31 juli 2023 · 52 min
Latif Nasser is the current co-host of the WNYC show Radiolab. Radiolab is probably the first podcast I was ever really a fan of. I've been listening since 2007 when it was hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. It's an amazing show that leans on the incredible audio production to convey the wonder of science. The show has branched out to tell all kinds of stories--not just about science--but it's still one of the best science shows out there. Lees meer
Latif came to Radiolab while working on his Ph.D. in the History of Science at Harvard. He eventually joined the show's team to report stories and occupy the role of Director of Research. In 2020, he joined Lulu Miller as co-host of the show. Also in 2020, he hosted a 6-episode show for Netflix: Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything. And I think I first really learned about Latif through an incredible (although not super science-y) series he produced, The Other Latif. Seriously, you have to check it out.
In our conversation, we talk about the philosophy of science communication, the role of narrative, and how Radiolab works. We also break down an episode that Latif reported in 2021, "Of Bombs and Butterflies."
You can find the rest of this summer's science communication podcast series here.
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SciComm Summer #18: Alie Ward on Making "Ologies"
24 juli 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
Alie Ward is a lot of things--an actor, illustrator, TV host. But I was especially interested in talking to her about her undeniably popular science podcast, Ologies. Her show shares interviews with all sorts of scientists. It's so delightful and engaging, and Alie puts in the work to fill the listener in behind the scenes on things you wouldn't know if you just listened to the interview. Think you're not interested in indigenous bees? Well, just listen to her interview with a Native Melittologist and think again. Lees meer
We talk about Alie's backstory, how she approaches Ologies, and what we're trying to do when we share science with a big, public audience.
You can find the rest of this summer's science communication podcast series here.
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SciComm Summer #17: Siri Carpenter on The Open Notebook
17 juli 2023 · 56 min
Siri Carpenter began her science writing journey without a playbook. She was working on a Ph.D. in social psychology and ended up being awarded a AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship where she got critical experience in the field. From there, she took on assignments, pitched stories, and tried to figure out how to do the job of a science journalist. Lees meer
In trying to figure things out, she talked to experienced writers and thought other people would benefit from what they had to say too. And thus The Open Notebook (TON) was born. It's been a powerful resource for science writers, providing free access to articles and interviews about the craft. The website also includes courses and a "pitch database." In 2020, Siri's edited book "The Craft of Science Writing" was released, featuring new and established articles from TON.
In our conversation, she shares her journey and offers advice for aspiring science journalists.
You can find the rest of this summer's science communication podcast series here.
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SciComm Summer #16: Sam Jones on Charting Your Own Path
10 juli 2023 · 53 min
Sam Jones wears many hats. She's executive producer of the podcast Tiny Matters. She's also worked on other podcast and video projects. She's written about science for The Washington Post, New York Times, Scientific American, and more. She's also the current president of the D.C. Science Writers Association. Oh, and she got her Ph.D. in Biomedical Science at UCSD in 2018. Sam does good work and has to find her own way into science communication as an "alternative" to the more typical academic pathways laid out in grad school. In our conversation, we talk about her journey and what she's learned about doing scicomm her way. Lees meer
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SciComm Summer #15: Adam Mastroainni on Substack (etc.)
3 juli 2023 · 55 min
Adam Mastroianni is a social psychologist and the author of Experimental History, available on Substack. But what is Substack? And is it a good vehicle for science communication? Adam shares his experiences writing for a non-academic audience and also reflects on the role of "science communication" in the world. Should there be a division between the scientists and the science communicators? What is a scientist's responsibility in keeping in touch with the public? Lees meer
We also discuss his new article in The Atlantic: "I Ruined Two Birthday Parties and Learned the Limits of Psychology."
You can find the rest of this summer's science communication podcast series here.
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SciComm Summer #14: Melinda Wenner Moyer on Science Journalism
26 juni 2023 · 56 min
Melinda Wenner Moyer is a science journalist and contributing editor at Scientific American magazine. Recently, Melinda received the Excellence in Science Journalism award from The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the 2019 Bricker Award for Science Writing in Medicine, and her work was featured in the 2020 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. But that’s only recently. She’s been writing about science for major outlets for years and doing it really, really well. Lees meer
In 2021, she released her first book—How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes, which is a great parenting book that actually cares about evidence from behavioral science.
We talk about how she got started and her new book, but we also do a deep dive on a 2017 feature article she wrote for Scientific American about whether legal access to guns actually deters crime and makes people safer ("More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows"). It’s a really great example of what science journalism can be, and I wanted to know every step of how something like that gets written.
You can find the rest of this summer's science communication podcast series here.
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Introducing "SciComm Summer"...Season 2!
19 juni 2023 · 2 min
(Another) special summer series on science communication! Regular Opinion Science episodes will resume in August. Lees meer
Announcing another season of my special podcast mini-series for the summer focused on science communication. I wanted to talk to a bunch of people who have become experts at communicating research outside of academia through different forms of media.
So whether you’re an academic who wants to communicate your research more widely, a journalist interested in covering more social science topics, or just someone in the world who’s looking to be a better communicator, I think you’ll find a ton to like this series.
Just stay subscribed to Opinion Science to get this summer series. All episodes in the series will also be available online at: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/hot-scicomm-summer/
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#19 (Updated): Political Humor as Persuasion with Danna Young
5 juni 2023 · 1 uur 20 min
Dr. Dannagal Young studies political humor. She pulls together psychology, communications, and political science, to understand how political satire works to change minds and expand political knowledge. She also has a new book: Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States, which explores how satire became a tool of political left and outrage media because a tool of the political right. Lees meer
Update: This episode was replayed on June 5th, 2023 and contains an extra interview at the end about some newer work. Danna's TED talk came out in 2020. She just released a full lecture series on Propaganda and Persuasion through The Great Courses. And later this year, you can read her new book Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation (out October 17, 2023).
Some things that come up on this episode:
Daily Show viewers were particularly well-informed about the 2004 election (Young, 2004)
Jon Stewart defending the Daily Show on Crossfire (2006)
Jokes lead people to suspend critical thinking about a message (Polk, Young, & Holbert, 2009; Young, 2008)
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#79: "Survivor" Bias with Erin O'Mara Kunz
22 mei 2023 · 57 min
Erin O’Mara Kunz is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Dayton. We spend the whole episode on her new paper analyzing racial and gender biases in the voting decisions on the reality TV show, Survivor. We dig into how Survivor is a useful test case for understanding discrimination, what the data tell us, and what conclusions we can take away. Lees meer
Things that come up in this episode:
In the intro, I mention that social scientists are no strangers to analyzing decisions in televised game shows. These include analyses of bets placed on the show Jeopardy! (Metrick, 1995), choices on Deal or No Deal (Post et al., 2008), and bids on The Price is Right (e.g., Berk et al., 1996)
Erin's new paper analyses trends over 40 seasons of Survivor (Kunz et al,. in press)
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#78: Our Impressions of Others with Leor Hackel
8 mei 2023 · 54 min
Leor Hackel studies how we learn about other people and how we make decisions about them. He’s an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, and he uses neuroscience, economic games, and computational models to sort out what’s going on in our heads as we’re getting information about other people. Lees meer
Things that we mention in this episode
Dolf Zillmann's disposition theory (Zillmann & Cantor, 1972; 1996; also see affective disposition theory [Wiki])
The difference between "reward associations" and "trait impressions" in how we learn about other people (Hackel et al., 2020; 2022), including differences in brain processes (Hackel et al., 2015)
People will give more to someone who gave them more, even if that person is just as "generous" a person as someone who gave less (Hackel et al., 2018)
We can form impressions of others is various sorts of "gist" memories (Hackel et al., in press)
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Political Persuasion with Alex Coppock (Rebroadcast)
24 april 2023 · 43 min
This week, I'm happy to reshare my conversation with political scientist, Alex Coppock. This episode first ran on October 12, 2020, and just a few months ago, Alex published his book, "Persuasion in Parallel: How Information Changes Minds about Politics." The book nicely aligns with our conversation on the podcast, so it seemed like a good reason to reshare the original episode. Enjoy! See you in a couple weeks with a brand new episode. Lees meer
Original Episode: #22 - Political Persuasion with Alex Coppock
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Alex Coppock is an assistant professor of Political Science at Yale University. His research considers what affects people's political beliefs, especially the kinds of messages people regularly encounter--TV ads, lawn signs, Op-Eds, etc. In this episode, he shares the findings of a big, new study that just came out as well as what it means for how persuasion works.Things that came up in this episode:
A new study testing dozens the efficacy of dozens of political ads (Coppock, Hill, & Vavreck, 2020)
The long-lasting effects of newspaper op-eds on public opinion (Coppock, Ekins, & Kirby, 2018)
The effects of lawn signs on vote outcomes (Green, Krasno, Coppock, Farrer, Lenoir, & Zingher, 2016)
Framing effects in persuasion (for an overview, see Chong & Druckman, 2007)
The sleeper effect (see here for an overview)
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#77: Opinions in the Brain with Uma Karmarkar
10 april 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
Uma Karmarkar is a decision neuroscientist. She tries to understand how people make decisions when they have too little or too much information, and she uses tools and theories from neuroscience, psychology, and economics. I wanted to get Uma's take on the value of neuroscience in trying to understand consumer behavior. Does looking at brain signals give us anything special when we try to figure out why people buy what they buy, which advertisements are most influential, etc. We talk about the promises and limitations of neuroscience and cover a whole lot of ground in doing so! Lees meer
Things that come up in this episode:
The opening example of a neural focus group to identify songs that would become hits is from Berns and Moore's (2012) experiment published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology. The other examples were also published studies, including the study on anti-smoking PSAs (Falk et al., 2012) and chocolate brand displays (Kühn et al., 2016).
(By the way, I didn't actually just stumbled across those songs in the intro. As with most of the music in the podcast, they came from Epidemic Sound.)
Uma has two great summary articles on the role of neuroscience in consumer psychology (Karmarkar & Plassmann, 2019; Karmarkar & Yoon, 2016)
And because it came up, I'll plug my one fMRI study on certainty and ambivalence in the brain (Luttrell et al., 2016)
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#76: You Can't Tell Me What To Do with Ben Rosenberg
27 maart 2023 · 50 min
Ben Rosenberg studies how people react to having their freedom threatened. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Dominican University of California. In addition to conducting his own studies on this question, he has exhaustively reviewed decades of research on something called "psychological reactance theory." In our conversation, we break down what reactance is, where it comes from, who it applies to, and what questions about it are still unanswered. Lees meer
Things that come up in this episode:
2022 set new records for attempts to ban books in the United States (Associated Press, 2023)
In the intro, I tell a personal story about book bans in my school district, but don't worry--I have sources (1, 2, 3)
Banning books has been linked to increases in sales (e.g., The Hill, 2022)
Psychology research has found that censorship can change people's attitudes (e.g., Worchel & Arnold, 1973)
Ben and his advisor summarized a long history of research on psychological reactance (Rosenberg & Siegel, 2018)
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#75: High-Quality Listening with Guy Itzchakov
13 maart 2023 · 53 min
Guy Itzchakov knows how to listen. He's an associate professor in the Department of Human Services at the University of Haifa. He studies the markers of high-quality listening. But it's not that he tries to figure out who listens well and who doesn't. Instead, he's focused on how receiving high-quality listening affects us as speakers. He finds, for example, that when someone really, deeply listens to what we have to say, it provides us with a safe opportunity to explore where we really stand, realizing that the world is more nuanced than our simple opinions make them out to be. In our conversation, Guy shares the hallmarks of quality listening and what impact they have on speakers. Lees meer
Things that come up in this episode:
Psychologist Carl Rogers and his pioneering work on person-centric therapy and empathic listening. Sources for the intro included: Boettcher, Hofmann, and Wu (Noba Textbook); Owen (2022); Rogers and Roethlisberger (1952)
The markers of good listening: attention, comprehension, and positive intention (see Kluger & Itzchakov, 2022)
Being listened to can lead people to openly acknowledge their ambivalence (Itzchakov et al., 2017) while becoming more clear in their views (Itzchakov et al., 2018).
Speakers who experienced high-quality listening became less prejudiced in their views of other groups (Itzchakov et al., 2020)
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#74: When a Society Changes its Mind with Tessa Charlesworth
27 februari 2023 · 52 min
Tessa Charlesworth studies patterns in people’s beliefs and opinions over time, mapping out the minds of a society over decades. She’s currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University. In this episode, she shares her work charting changes in the public’s implicit biases over decades and other research looking at the evolution of language over a couple of centuries to track changes in common stereotypes. Lees meer
Also, we mention a previous episode of the show that’s worth checking out: Episode 16: Implicit Bias with Mahzarin Banaji
Things that come up in this episode:
Tessa has a series of papers on the changes in implicit biases over time (Charlesworth & Banaji, 2019, 2021a, 2021b, 2022)
Decoding gender stereotypes though language analysis (Charlesworth et al., 2021)
Tracking stereotypes revealed by the words in books over centuries (Charlesworth et al., 2022)
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#73: Navigating Diversity with Maureen Craig
13 februari 2023 · 54 min
Maureen Craig studies how we navigate a diverse social world. She's an associate professor of psychology at New York University. In our conversation, she shares her work looking at people's reactions to the ever-increasing diversity of their social environments. How do people react to the news that one day, less than half of the U.S. population will be White? She also shares her other work on who tends to advocate for whom. What makes an "ally"? When do members of one minority group stand up for another minority group? Lees meer
Things that come up in this episode:
People often implicitly associate “American” with “White” (see Devos & Mohamed, 2014)
According to the U.S. Census, less than half of Americans under 18 are White (AP News, 2021) and less than half of White Americans live in predominantly White neighborhoods (Washington Post, 2022)
For a summary of the work on people’s reactions to increasing racial diversity, see Craig et al. (2018)
For a summary of the work on solidarity and allyship, check out Craig et al. (2020)
People assume that certain racial groups are aligned on specific social and political issues (Craig et al., 2022)
Framing inequality in terms of the disadvantaged group prompts more support for action than framing it in terms of the advantaged group (Dietze & Craig, 2021)
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#72: Fighting Against Misinformation with Sander van der Linden
30 januari 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
Sander van der Linden studies the psychology of misinformation. He and his lab have conducted studies to understand why people believe false information, and they've also leveraged the psychology of "inoculation" to build tools that help people avoid falling prey to misinformation. He describes this work and more in his new book, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity. Lees meer
You can play the video game that Sander's lab built to inoculate people against misinformation. The game is called Bad News.
At the beginning of the episode, I share the story of the first bit of fake news in American media. In tracing the arc of the story and getting the critical details, I turned primarily to Andie Tucher's recent book, Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History. Other details thanks to an interview Tucher did, a story in The Saturday Evening Post, and an article by Emmanuel Paraschos.
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#71: "Person" = "Man"? with April Bailey
16 januari 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
April Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire, and she studies the psychology of androcentrism—people’s tendency to think of men as a stand-in for all people and treating women’s experiences as the outlier. We talk about exactly what androcentrism is, the kinds of evidence we have for it, and what it means for the future of how we think about gender. Lees meer
Things that come up in this episode:
The history of the genderless pronoun "thon," including a question in The Straight Dope (see Baron, 2018; Converse, 1884; Merriam-Webster)
An overview of the psychology of androcentrism (Bailey et al., 2019)
Androcentrism reflected in the order in which people are listed (Hegarty et al., 2011)
Billions of words on the internet highlight everyday androcentrism (Bailey et al., 2022)
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BONUS: "Best" of Opinion Science (2022)
9 januari 2023 · 1 uur 15 min
Another year in the books! I don't think I ever really mastered writing the year as "2022," and now I have to write "2023." I'll figure it out one of these days. Lees meer
But another year meant another year of Opinion Science! This year saw even more new listeners, amazing guests, and an ambitious series of episodes over the summer. Your support has meant a lot.
So even though I'm (again) a week or so behind on this, I wanted put together another "best of" episode, featuring notable moments from the podcast in 2022. As I say every year, it’s not truly a “best of” per se because I really am attached to every episode. Instead, I’ve chosen some clips that highlight the kind of show this is, including some of the things that made this year especially special.
If you’re new to the show, this is a great place to start! And if you’ve been listening since the beginning, join me on some fun memories from this year.
-Andy
Featured 2022 episodes:
Episode 54: Influence is Your Superpower with Zoe Chance
Episode 57: Media, Norms, & Social Change with Sohad Murrar
Episode 58: How Minds Change with David McRaney (ft. Adam Mastroianni)
Episode 63: Why We Need Polls with G. Elliott Morris
Episode 64: Saving Democracy with Robb Willer
Episode 68: Intellectual Humility with Tenelle Porter
SciComm Summer #1: Joss Fong – Producing Science Videos
SciComm Summer #2: Meryl Horn – Producing “Science Vs”
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#70: A "Mixed" Bag with Geoff Durso
2 januari 2023 · 52 min
Geoff Durso studies what happens when we face mixed information. When people do good things and bad things. When a product has positive and negative qualities. Geoff's an assistant professor of marketing at DePaul University. He's also an old friend of mine. We met up at a conference and caught up, chatting about some of the cool work Geoff has done on the nature of ambivalence. Lees meer
(As I mention in the intro, you can also check out Episode 35 with Iris Schneider for more on ambivalence.)
Things that come up in this episode:
Geoff's early work on ambivalence (Rydell & Durso, 2012)
The effects of expecting ambivalence (Durso et al., 2021)
How psychological power makes us delay making decisions when we're ambivalent (Durso et al., 2016)
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#69: Directing Attention (and Other Lessons from the Science of Magic) with Anthony Barnhart (ft. Erik Tait)
19 december 2022 · 1 uur 8 min
Tony Barnhart is Associate Professor of Psychological Science at Carthage College. But just as notably, he's a magician. As a result of this dual identity, he has the unique distinction of being an expert in the psychology of magic. Magicians have long prided themselves on understanding and exploiting human psychology, but Tony actually brings a scientific perspective. He's on the committee for the Science of Magic Association and played a central role in the book Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions. Today on the podcast, Tony shares his work on the psychology of attention, what we can learn from magicians' expertise in "misdirection," and what science can give back to magic. Lees meer
Opening the show is a chat with my buddy Erik Tait. Erik has the unique honor of recently placing third in card magic at F.I.S.M., the Olympics of magic. You can watch his winning act below. Erik shares his story of training for the big competition and what he's learned about the psychology of directing attention.
Things that come up in this episode:
We mention the "Invisible Gorilla" experiment a few times. You can learn more and see a video here.
For a nice overview of Tony's research on the psychology of magic, check out his 15-minute keynote address for the 2020 American Psychological Association virtual meeting (video)
Tracking people's attention by recording their eye movements while watching magic tricks (Barnhart & Goldinger, 2014)
"Microsaccades" (tiny eye movements) reveal whether people are fooled by a magic trick (Barnhart et al., 2019)
How auditory rhythms can direct visual attention (Barnhart et al., 2018)
Using "tactical blinking" as misdirection (Barnhart et al., 2022)
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#68: Intellectual Humility with Tenelle Porter
5 december 2022 · 57 min
Tenelle Porter is a new colleague of mine at Ball State University. She's an educational psychologist, and one of the things she studies is intellectual humility, which is people's awareness of the limits of their knowledge and the fallibility of their reasoning. Intellectual humility offers a variety of handy benefits even though there has been some disagreement about what it is, exactly. I was excited to sit down with Tenelle and get her take on intellectual humility, what it does for people, and when we ought to have more or less of it. Lees meer
Things that come up in this episode:
For a nice summary of a lot of the things we discuss, check out Tenelle's new review article in Nature Reviews Psychology (Porter et al., 2022a)
Surveying different definitions of "intellectual humility" to clarify the content of this idea (Porter et al., 2022b)
Intellectual humility promotes openness to other opinions (Porter & Schumann, 2018)
Intellectual humility promotes mastery in learning (Porter et al., 2020)
Classroom environments can shape students' intellectual humility (Porter et al., 2022c)
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#67: Confronting Prejudice with Margo Monteith
21 november 2022 · 50 min
Margo Monteith is a Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. She studies how we can reduce prejudice in the world by confronting those biases head-on. One way we can confront prejudice is to keep ourselves in check, paying attention to the ways in which we might say or do something biased. Another way we can confront prejudice is to call out other people when they say or do something biased. In our conversation, Margo gives a big overview of her work in these areas and highlights the importance of keeping these biases under control. Lees meer
For big, up-to-date overviews of the research we talk about in this episode, you can check out a new chapter in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Monteith et al., 2022) and Margo's 2019 book with Robyn Mallet: Confronting Prejudice and Discrimination.
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#66: Your Language Shapes Your Opinions with Efrén Pérez
7 november 2022 · 1 uur 13 min
Efrén Pérez is a professor is a professor of Political Science and Psychology at UCLA. He studies political attitudes and behaviors among various racial and ethnic groups in the United States. With Margit Tavits, he recently co-wrote the book Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion. The book is a fascinating summary of research they have conducted testing how the unique characteristics of the language your speak can shape your political opinions. Languages around the world differ in their emphasis on gender or on the future, which shapes how speakers think in those terms. Languages also carry meaning as to their status in society, which can also affect people's opinions about race and ethnicity. Lees meer
In our conversation, Efrén shares how he got interested in language, what they've found in this research, and what questions they're tackling now.
Some things that come up in our conversation
How a language organizes its words for color can shape color perception (Roberson et al., 2005)
Language and opinion toward gender and LGBT equality (Perez & Tavits, 2019a; Tavits & Perez, 2019)
Language's use of future tense and opinions of distant dilemmas (Perez & Tavits, 2017)
Language status and the salience of ethnic divisions (Perez & Tavits, 2019b)
The value of "Latinx" (Vicuña & Pérez, in press)
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Systemic Racism with Phia Salter (Rebroadcast)
24 oktober 2022 · 53 min
This week, I'm out with COVID, so I'm re-sharing an early Opinion Science episode that has remained one of the most downloaded episodes of the show. I also took the opportunity to very slightly remaster it. See you in a couple weeks with a new episode! Lees meer
Phia Salter takes a cultural psychology approach to studying racism. She’s an associate professor of Psychology at Davidson College, and in this episode she draws a contrast between thinking of racism as an individual bias versus thinking of it as systemic. She talks about her research on the “Marley hypothesis” and the ways in which our environments’ discussion of racial issues shapes our own views.
For more resources on understanding racism in the U.S., you can start by checking out Smithsonian magazine's Resources to Understand Racism in America.
Things we mention in this episode:
Dr. Salter's summary of research related to systemic racism (Salter, Adams, & Perez, 2018)
The "Marley Hypothesis": Historical knowledge associated with recognizing contemporary racism (Nelson, Adams, & Salter, 2013)
Research on preferences for different Black History Month materials (Salter & Adams, 2016)
Writings of Derrick Bell on Critical Race Theory (For an overview of the movement, Dr. Salter recommends Delgado and Stefancic's introductory book)
George Lipsitz's "The Possessive Investment in Whiteness"
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#65: Language is for Doing with Thomas Holtgraves
10 oktober 2022 · 54 min
Tom Holtgraves studies how language helps us do things. We use words to inquire, to instruct, to command, and to persuade. Words are social. He's currently a Professor of Psychological Science at Ball State University (just down the hall from me!), and his lab studies how people use language and other symbols (e.g., emoji) to successfully or unsuccessfully communicate with one another. Lees meer
He edited the Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology and authored Language as Social Action: Social Psychology and Language Use. In our conversation, Tom introduces me to Speech Act Theory and what his own work tells us about how we can get our intentions across through language.
Some things that come up in this episode:
J. L. Austin's book "How to Do Things with Words"
How we communicate uncertainty (Holtgraves, 2014; Holtgraves & Perdew, 2016)
How emoji are used to convey indirect meaning (Holtgraves & Robinson, 2020)
Politeness in conversational arguments (Holtgraves, 1997)
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#64: Saving Democracy with Robb Willer
26 september 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
Robb Willer studies social and political divides, and maybe more importantly, he tries to find ways to overcome them. In our conversation, he shares his personal background, unpacks persuasion strategies that cut across political lines, and reveals the results of a major new study in his lab that tested a bunch of strategies for reducing political animosity and encouraging people to value democracy over other political attitudes. Lees meer
Some things that come up in the episode:
How moral values can be used in persuasion to appeal to audiences across the political spectrum (Feinberg & Willer, 2019; also see this New York Times article)
The value of correcting "meta-perceptions" as a way to curb political prejudice (Mernyk, Pink, Druckman, & Willer, 2022)
A "mega-study" testing 25 interventions to address political animosity and democratic attitudes (Voelkel et al., working paper)
Audio for the opening of the show from BBC, CBC, and CNN.
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SciComm Summer #13: John Sides - Contributing to Political Discussion
29 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 12 min
John Sides is a political scientist at Vanderbilt University and co-founded The Monkey Cage, which is a popular political science blog now available at the Washington Post. The blog gives academic social scientists a platform to use their expertise to help the public understand political news. In our conversation, John talks about the origins of TMC, the kinds of articles that are successful, and how (and why!) to write well for a public audience. Lees meer
This episode is the final episode in a special podcast series on science communication. You can find more info and episodes here: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/hot-scicomm-summer/
Video going over key ideas from the scicomm series: https://youtu.be/Fbx2Xj4KcU0
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SciComm Summer #12: Steve Rathje - Social Science on TikTok
22 augustus 2022 · 57 min
Steve Rathje has managed to rack up more than a million followers on TikTok (@stevepsychology) while pursuing a PhD in social psychology (and doing some very cool research). He shares quick videos about key insights from psychological science that are reaching an entirely new audience. In our conversation, he fills me in on the finer points of TikTok as a platform, why it's uniquely suited to science communication, and how Steve approaches each video to bring insights from social science to a largely untapped audience. Lees meer
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SciComm Summer #11: Alie and Micah Caldwell - Building an Independent YouTube Channel
15 augustus 2022 · 54 min
Alie and Micah Caldwell produce the YouTube channel, Neuro Transmissions. Their videos present the basics of neuroscience and psychology in an accessible, engaging way. Alie is a neuroscientist and senior science writer at the University of Chicago Medicine. Micah is a licensed professional clinical counselor. In our conversation, we talk about the origins of Neuro Transmissions, their philosophy of science communication, and their new book. Lees meer
(This episode is a rebroadcast of Opinion Science #40: "Explaining Brains".)
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SciComm Summer #10: Tim Houlihan & Kurt Nelson - Interviewing Behavioral Scientists
8 augustus 2022 · 55 min
Tim Houlihan and Kurt Nelson are the hosts of Behavioral Grooves, which is a wonderful weekly podcast featuring interviews with behavioral scientists and practitioners. For #HotSciCommSummer, I wanted to learn more about how they started their podcast journey, what advice they have for budding podcasters, and what advice they have for academics who are going to be interviewed about their work. Lees meer
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SciComm Summer #9: Jesse Thorn - Interviewing
1 augustus 2022 · 1 uur
Jesse Thorn hosts the show "Bullseye" on NPR where he interviews people in arts and culture. A few years ago, he interviewed a bunch of incredible interviewers for his podcast, "The Turnaround." He's just the guy to talk to about the craft of interviewing people of note, which is a skill that's called for in lots of science communication efforts. So I was excited to meet Jesse and get his take on interviewing, including some really great tangible tips. Lees meer
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SciComm Summer #8: Vanessa Bohns - Writing Books as an Academic
25 juli 2022 · 58 min
Vanessa Bohns is a social psychologist at Cornell University, and last year she release a book for the public: You Have More Influence Than You Think. It's a great book about a program of research she's been working on for year. I wanted to talk to Vanessa about what it was like to translate her research into a format that would be useful and digestible for non-academic audiences. We also talk about why a full-time researcher would take on a project like this, how to actually accomplish it, and then what happens when the book is out there in the world. Lees meer
Vanessa was a previous guest on Opinion Science (Ep. 19: More Influence Than You Realize with Vanessa Bohns), and it was great to have her back on for this summer's science communication series.
This episode is part of a special podcast series on science communication. You can find more info and episodes here: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/hot-scicomm-summer/
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SciComm Summer #7: Dan Pink - Writing Books
18 juli 2022 · 50 min
Daniel Pink is a bestselling author who uses social science research to explore big questions about what it means to be human. He’s written seven books, and his newest one came out last February—The Power of Regret. You can also check out his Masterclass on sales and persuasion. In our conversation, Dan gives a look into his writing process. How does he go from an idea for a book to the final product? And how does he draw on social science along the way? This was a super fun chat—check it out! Lees meer
[Please note this is mostly a re-broadcast of Opinion Science, Episode 48]
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SciComm Summer #6: Evelyn Carter - Training and Consulting
11 juli 2022 · 52 min
Evelyn Carter is a social psychologist who specializes in communicating science-based practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion to organizations. She leads workshops, gives talks, develops courses, gives interviews with the media, and writes newsletters…all of which requires a special skill for making science understandable and actionable. She’s currently the president at Paradigm, which is a company that provides consulting services, workshops, and products that are designed to build organizations that diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Lees meer
In our conversation, Evelyn shares how she had to chart out her own path and gives advice for communicating nuanced and sensitive findings from social science to the public.
This episode is part of a special podcast series on science communication. You can find more info and episodes here: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/hot-scicomm-summer/
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SciComm Summer #5: Taylor Scott - Bridging Research and Policy
4 juli 2022 · 52 min
Taylor Scott is an assistant research professor at Penn State, she's the director of research translation in the Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative, and she's co-director of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration. In this episode, we talk about the relationship between scientists and policymakers, how to facilitate those interactions, and ultimately what social science research might have to contribute to policy initiatives. Lees meer
If you're a researcher and you're interested in getting involved with the Research-to-Policy Collaboration, you can enter your information here: https://research2policy.org/participating-researchers/
You can read more about the Research-to-Policy Collaboration model and their empirical work in several journal publications, including papers in PNAS (Crowley et al., 2021), American Psychologist (Crowley et al., 2021), and American Journal of Public Health (Long et al., 2021).
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SciComm Summer #4: David Nussbaum - Writing Op-Eds
27 juni 2022 · 51 min
David Nussbaum is a social psychologist with a keen talent for pitching Op-Eds. He's worked with many social scientists to land articles in major outlets, including the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, etc. He recently launched a new non-profit organization, Psychgeist Media, which aims to help researchers share their work with the public in an accurate and engaging way. You definitely want to get on their email list because their monthly newsletter is great. Lees meer
In our conversation, we spend some time walking the process of pitching and writing this Op-Ed that was published in the Washington Post last year: "Small talk is boring. Our research shows how you can do better."
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SciComm Summer #3: David McRaney - Making Social Science Engaging
20 juni 2022 · 40 min
David McRaney is a writer and podcaster who has been covering important work in psychology for many years. Although he was a guest on Opinion Science a few months ago (Episode 58: How Minds Change with David McRaney), I also used the opportunity to ask him about his process for communicating psychological research to the public. So, the first 15 minutes of this episode is a repeat of his earlier appearance, but the rest of the interview hasn't been released until now. Lees meer
We talk about the challenges of knowing what your audience already knows, how to situate science reporting within accessible narratives, and the big question of why it's worth engaging with social science in a public setting at all.
David's new book, How Minds Change, comes out tomorrow and is definitely worth picking up. You should also throw his podcast You Are Not So Smart on your podcast app now because it's great.
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SciComm Summer #2: Meryl Horn - Producing the "Science Vs" Podcast
13 juni 2022 · 1 uur
Meryl Horn is a producer at Science Vs from Gimlet Media and Spotify. Science Vs is a popular science podcast that pits timely claims against scientific evidence. It's a great show. You should listen to it. Lees meer
Before being a podcast producer, Meryl got her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California San Francisco. She shares how she went from being a graduate student to working professionally in science communication. She also breaks down the process of pitching, researching, and completing an episode of Science Vs, including helpful advice for translating niche science findings to a mainstream audience.
We pay particular attention to this episode of Science Vs from last year: "Burnout: Can We Fix Work?"
This episode is part of a special podcast series on science communication. You can find more info and episodes here: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/hot-scicomm-summer/
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SciComm Summer #1: Joss Fong - Producing Science Videos
6 juni 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Joss Fong is a senior editorial producer at Vox. She produces science videos on a variety of topics, pushing the medium in ever more creative directions to convey interesting and important ideas. Lees meer
We spend a lot of our time talking about her most recent video: "How American conservatives turned against the vaccine"
Here are some of the other videos we talked about in this episode:
"Does Megalodon still exist? Shark Week debunked"
“Are We Automating Racism?” (Glad You Asked series)
"The state of gun violence in the US, explained in 18 charts"
Why the James Webb Space Telescope looks like that
All of Joss’ videos for Vox are available in this YouTube playlist.
Also, Joss mentioned a great animation-based science channel on YouTube: Kurzgesagt
This episode is part of a special podcast series on science communication. You can find more info and episodes here: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/hot-scicomm-summer/
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