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They Did What to What?

They Did What to What?

di Martin and Cristina

Educazione Scienza

Stagione 3

S3E1B Pseudopatient Study: Liar liar pants on fire

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."

S3E1A Pseudopatient Study: You can't make this up

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 revision of the DSM and conversations about mental health treatment in America. If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?

Stagione 2

S2E7 Stanford Prison Experiment: A priest, a lawyer, and a professor walk into a prison.

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

S2E6 Stanford Prison Experiment: Let's go bestie, we're building a prison.

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

S2E5 Spinal Anesthesia: August and August have a date.

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

S2E4 Loftus Memory Studies: Do you remember your car crash?

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?

S2E3 The Bystander Effect: TV made us zombies

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

S2E2 Dale Spender: Hiding in Bushes with Recorders

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.

S2E1 Pavlov: No Bell Nobel

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?

Stagione 1

S1E6 Milgram's Shock Study: 40 Men from New Haven

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.

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