Our best effort to diplomatically introduce the broiling controversy around ABA as abusive and accusations comparing ABA to conversion therapy. We prepare for what is going to be a several-week miniseries explaining and responding to vocal critiques of Behavior Analysis. We love you all, please don’t hurt us.
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Read MoreA lot of myth-busting and a little proselytization. We describe how people get started in sex work and the kinds of policies and practices that make it safe or extremely dangerous. Sex workers are people who need protection and support. The “righteous” policies that have tried to end or block sex work have only lead to the worst things that have ever happened to sex workers. There is a better way!
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Read MoreIn celebration of 4 years of making this podcast, we thought we’d discuss anniversary-specific gift traditions, and other gift traditions related to anniversaries.. We got most of the team together to share traditions each person finds interesting, weird, or personal. What do you do for anniversary traditions?
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Read MoreWe pick up on the hooks that companies use to reel you in. Whether for selling a product, soliciting donations, or modifying your behavior in general. Ad campaigns are crafted with great detail, incorporating emotional and social elements that influence our behavior in unique ways. If there’s a story to tell, a product to sell, or someone in need, these folks know how to get you to participate by playing into our emotional reactions to certain scenery.
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Read MoreThis episode will highlight the clever ways advertisers manipulate consumer behavior. Whether for selling a product, soliciting donations, or modifying your behavior in general. Ad campaigns are crafted with great detail, incorporating emotional and social elements that influence our behavior in unique ways. If there’s a story to tell, a product to sell, or someone in need, these folks know how to get you to participate by playing into our emotional reactions to certain scenery.
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Read MoreIvan Pavlov, Yup the guy with the dogs. Yup The Office episode. Yes, the one with the mint. Sure there is a surface level to him but do you really know him? Where did he grow up? What did he do before he got some dogs? What impact did he have on the Scientific community?
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Read MoreWe explore one of the most extreme circumstances imaginable to try to understand the actions of the surviving (and not) members of the Donner Party. This group of emigrants spent nearly a year attempting to cross the relatively unknown American frontier only to be trapped in a substantial snowstorm which left them immobile in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Yes, they ate their dead. Yes, they killed some people for “food.” And more…
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Read MoreDwight was kind of right: first impressions can be extremely important. This is a discussion about something called the “Halo Effect.” The halo effect is not in relation to the video game “Halo” but is the bias we have to automatically assume positive things about someone based on a single characteristic such as attractiveness. It can either elevate our opinion or sour it depending on the characteristic. But people are doing this to you too! We break down the how and why as well as bringing a little skepticism.
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Read MoreThis is a discussion as normal, but also is a story about four people who found themselves in a unique situation. In this episode, we dig into the psychology of people who, while alive, donate organs anonymously to strangers. We review how organ donation works, the advantages and disadvantages of living donors, and why people do it.
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Read MoreThis is a discussion as normal, but also is a story about four people who found themselves in a unique situation. In this episode, we dig into the psychology of people who, while alive, donate organs anonymously to strangers. We review how organ donation works, the advantages and disadvantages of living donors, and why people do it.
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Read MoreWe ask such questions as “who holds the record for the longest time without sleep?” “Why is sleep important?” and “How can we screw up our sleep for good?” A high school student for a science fair project, because otherwise, we die, and alcohol and a bunch of other things. We count down the top 10 ways to ruin your sleep which doubles as a recommendation for how to avoid ruining your sleep and how to sleep better. It’s a blast!
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Read MoreThanks to all of you, we made it to 200 episodes! In celebration, we had a variety of guests, a variety of segments, and a variety of activities. You might call it… a variety show…Please enjoy this off-brand hodge-podge of contributions and fun to mark our 200th episodes!
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Read MoreIn 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Iowa teacher Jane Elliott developed a classroom exercise in the effects of prejudice by separating her third-grade class into two groups by eye color. Through a series of contrived narratives, the two groups became at odds with each other, exhibiting such volatile behavior reminiscent of racial tensions so common in the news. The effects of the exercise seemed to instill a sense of empathy among the students for what it felt like to be marginalized or oppressed. While it can only offer insight into what oppressed populations truly feel, it was a powerful exercise that was able to be modified for use with other populations including businesses, correctional facilities, and college campuses. Each iteration yielded the same lessons that decades later seem just as necessary, if not more.
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Read MoreWe were thinking of the history of punk and straight-edge and hippies and that lead us down the path of a survey of counter-culture in general. Largely in the US and somewhat in other parts of the world. We enumerate the various cultures, explain why they form, why they sustain, how they change, and what role they serve. Plus some silly outtakes at the end.
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Read MoreThe Milgram experiment, Nazi Germany, and other coercive practices. Is obedience to authority an excuse for committing atrocities? How should these people be treated? Furthermore, how do we understand compliance, obedience, and conformity?
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Read MoreGet your stretchy pants and a dense rubber mat and prepare to be lead in a psychological stretch! This discussion covers what yoga is, the benefits to psychology, its relation to behavior analysis, and skepticism about some of the wild claims. Whether or not you’re a yogi, there is something here for you!
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Read MoreGet your stretchy pants and a dense rubber mat and prepare to be lead in a psychological stretch! This discussion covers what yoga is, the benefits to psychology, its relation to behavior analysis, and skepticism about some of the wild claims. Whether or not you’re a yogi, there is something here for you!
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Read MoreFinally, a nuanced discussion about cancel culture. There are good and bad things about this modern version of the stockades, or exile. It’s actually a very old practice in civilization, and, like many things, shouldn’t be black and white, but be given some thoughtful discussion. This is a strategy that can work to hold people accountable for bad behavior, but it is also wildly unpredictable and inconsistent. Do you cancel? Do you fight against it? Do you not care? Either way, join us for a dazzling conversation about the newly revitalized phenomenon.
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Read MoreWhat do Rush Limbaugh David Lee Ross, and Fidel Castro have in common? They are all part of a discussion about fundamental attribution error! This human bias is ironically self-referential. People tend to attribute causes of their own behavior to external characteristics while assuming that others’ behavior is due to characteristics endemic to that person. Or at least in western cultures they do. We discuss what it is, skepticism about it, and how to avoid it.
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Read MoreWe invited the hosts of an exciting new podcast to share what they are doing with their podcast: The ABA & OT podcast. This new podcast is a collaboration between a Behavior Analyst and an Occupational Therapist who found common ground in Precision Teaching and helping children with disabilities. A real effort to bridge to estranged worlds in psychology and human service.
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