Fantastic podcast for psychological science and showing scientific thinking
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“This podcast is awesome and is among the most useful material I’ve ever seen for understanding what the SCIENCE of psychology is about.
As someone with a PhD in experimental psychology (in the clinical area), I can tell you that the way the hosts think and what they believe represents very accurately how the science is and should be done, and what is known and NOT known in psychology. They grapple with subtleties.
I don’t have personal knowledge of the hosts, but my colleagues who really knew Paul Bloom’s work respected him greatly.
I will especially be recommending this to friends who believe in a lot of pop psychology or “woo-woo” things. (FYI I love some of that stuff—for the practices and experiences, but never their explanations.) My take on the difference is: Those “Experts” and self-help gurus out there want you believe that they have the answers to what you want to know. Why you hurt, how you live your life, etc.
Whereas on this podcast, these more-serious scientists are more intellectually honest and rigorous, accepting what they don’t know. Just as importantly, they’re also not OVERLY humble: They do take a stand where the science truly allows it. They’re willing to criticize (like the psychologist on Decoding the Gurus podcast, where host Paul Bloom was a guest in April 2023).
One criticism (honestly just me blasting my opinion out): They’re overly generous to Freud in my opinion. I find Freud’s methods so offensive to science (and inappropriately revered) that he shouldn't be celebrated but rather condemned. That small subset of useful and non-misleading ideas he had weren’t brilliant would have been brought forth by someone else had he not popularized them.
Anyway, I love this podcast and am so happy that I can now send this podcast to people.”Read full review »
enoflow via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/16/23
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“Loving the podcast and will be providing it as a resource to my Introduction to Psychology students!”
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United States of America ·
03/28/23
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“I miss Tamler :(”
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United States of America ·
05/09/23
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“Awesome podcast! Looking forward to read the book when I’m finished with this”
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Great Britain ·
08/04/23
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