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In this episode, Martin and Cristina cover the famous Marshmallow Study, a study of delayed gratification in children. Since it's rise in popularity, the Marshmallow Study has been touted as a predictive test that could accurately categorize people into low and high achievers, people willing to delay their own gratification for long term gain and impulsive people unwilling to wait for bigger rewar...

This is part 2 of 2 of the pseudopatient study conducted by Rosenhan in the 1970s. In this episode, Martin and Cristina talk about the recently released book and paper both documenting the scientific fraud underlying "On Being Sane in Insane Places."

Season 3 Episode 1! We start with the famous pseudopatient study, titled "On Being Sane in Insane Places," conducted by David Rosenhan, published in Science on Jan 19, 1973. In this study, Rosenhan asked questions about psychiatric diagnosis and the real differences between normal and abnormal people. His work was a part of and bolstered the growing anti-psychiatry movement, ushering in a complete...

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.