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Ethics Motivation

Ep 299: How Smart Do You Want Your Fitness Tracker...

Fitness tracking devices are getting smarter. They’re going to have to get a lot smarter if they are going...

BY Michael
January 11, 2018
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Ethics

Ep 232: Psychologists Involved in Torture: What To Do About...

You may have heard from the US Senate report on terrorism and the “enhanced interrogations” that a small group of...

BY Michael
December 10, 2014
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Cognition, Intelligence and Language Ethics Research and Stats

Ep 230: Questionable Research – With A Famous Psychologist Involved

Questionable Research – Exploring Psychological Frontiers Psychology strives to uncover the human mind’s mysteries, with theories ranging from established to...

BY Michael
November 20, 2014
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Emotion Ethics Research and Stats Social Psychology

Ep 221: The Facebook Study on Your Emotions: Ethical or...

You may have heard that Facebook manipulated the content of user’s New Feeds during January of 2012 so that some...

BY Michael
July 1, 2014
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Development Ethics

Ep 211: Is a Little Deception Okay? Paid Crowds and...

We face more moral “dilemmas” in everyday life than maybe we don’t realize. How do we resolve them? In this...

BY Michael
December 16, 2013
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Ethics Social Psychology

Episode 119: Are You Lying in that Email?

Have you ever been less than truthful in an email? Or perhaps a little more blunt or emotional than you...

BY Michael
March 23, 2010
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Ethics Social Psychology

Episode 97: Stanley Milgram Obedience Study – Everything You Want...

The obedience studies originally conducted by Stanley Milgram (sometimes referred to as the Milgram Shock studies) have finally been replicated...

BY Michael
June 7, 2009
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Ethics History of Psychology Research and Stats Therapy

Episode 69: Personal Space Invasions – Ethical Implications of one...

Remember the psychological study conducted in a men's room? Think it was silly? Unethical? Let's revisit this study and take...

BY Michael
September 1, 2008
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Ethics Research and Stats Social Psychology

Episode 50: Psychological Study Ripped Straight from….the Bible?

How many scientific studies find their inspiration from a parable in the bible? I'll go over a very interesting study...

BY Michael
March 13, 2008
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Ethics Social Psychology

Episode 20: The Robber’s Cave Study – Exactly What Happened?

What do street gangs and little boys at a summer camp in Robber's Cave State Park in 1954 have in...

BY Michael
June 27, 2007
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