#220 Cory Clark & Bo Winegard: The Biggest Issues in Psychology
Dr. Cory Clark is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Durham University, UK. Dr. Clark does research in Moral Psychology, Political Psychology, Experimental Philosophy, and Motivated Cognition.
Dr. Bo Winegard is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Marietta College. He generally approaches psychological puzzles from an evolutionary perspective, applying Darwin’s theory of natural selection to the human mind. He focuses mostly on status, group differences, individual differences, bias, methods, and political psychology.
They are both cohosts of the Psyphilopod podcast.
In this episode, we go over some broad topics in the history of Psychology, and its approaches and theoretical foundations. We start off by asking if Freud really made any significant contributions to the field. Then, we get into how folk psychology intuitions might get in the way of proper research. We discuss the replication crisis, and what it really means. We get into a discussion surrounding mind-brain dualism, and also to what extent conscious processes have any causal powers in people’s psychology and behavior. We also talk about the example of cognitive dissonance and how it has been misinterpreted as a phenomenon by social psychologists. Toward the end, we also have time to put some controversial evolutionary psychology hypotheses on the table.
Time Links:
Were there really any major contributions by Freud to Psychology?
Possible issues with psychological research
What can we really learn from the replication crisis?
Mind-brain dualism, and how people’s intuitions might contaminate Psychology
What do we need consciousness for?
Cognitive dissonance and some social psychology issues
An evolutionary psychology hypothesis
Follow their work!
Cory Clark:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2TO0dpP
Website: https://www.coryjclark.com/
Articles on Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2Hxk36e
Twitter handle: @ImHardcory
Bo Winegard:
Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y47etnem
Articles of Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/yyxfysaq
Quillette essays: https://tinyurl.com/y2ght8va
Twitter handle: @EPoe187
And the Psyphilopod podcast!: https://tinyurl.com/y3ny5tkw