Episode 088 – Psychology
This month we’re discussing Psychology! We discuss psychedelics, rodent-based experiments, citations and footnotes, and books that turn out to be not what we expected. Plus: Why some of us don’t eat cephalopods!
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In this episode
Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Amanda Wanner
Things We Read
- How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan
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- Not the Monty Python guy, that’s Michael Palin
- Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor and Michelle Hamilton
- How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays by Mandy Len Catron
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- To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This (New York Times article)
- Quirkology: The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives by Richard Wiseman
- How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do by Stanley Coren
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
- Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
- Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
Other Media We Mention
- The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton
- Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
- The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances by Matthew Inman
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
- Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
- The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
Links, Articles, and Things
- Episode 041 – Dystopian Fiction
- Oliver Sacks (Wikipedia)
- Michael Murray (Google Scholar) – Matthew’s dad
- Jean Piaget (Wikipedia)
- XKCD – Purity – “sociology is just applied psychology”
- SF Masterworks (Wikipedia) – The ones with yellow covers
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Join us again on Tuesday, November 19th we’ll be discussing Other People’s Favourites!
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