BJKS Podcast
Episodes
19. Erik Wengström: Loss aversion when deciding for others, the relationship between economics & psychology, and prosociality during the COVID-19 pandemic
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Wengström is a Professor of Economics at Lund University where he studies how people behave in economic and financial situations. In this conv...
18. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Parts 1 & 2
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a new kind of episode for this podcast: in addition to the interviews, I will now do a book club in which I and a friend read a long book (>...
17. Bianca Trovò: Ants-Review, rethinking peer review, and blockchain
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bianca Trovò is a PhD student at Neurospin and Sorbonne Université, where she studies self-initiated movements. Recently, she is a developer of Ants...
16. Brock Bastian: Pain, cooperation, and the benefits of difficulty
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brock Bastian is a professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne whose research focuses on pain, happiness, and morality. In this conversat...
15. Kate Jeffery: A brief history of spatial navigation, place cells & grid cells in 3D, and brain evolution
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Jeffery is a professor of behavioural neuroscience at University College London, where she works on spatial navigation. In this conversation, we ...
14. Tessa Rusch: COVID-Dynamic, an extremely variable year, and theory of mind
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tessa Rusch is a postdoc working on computational modelling of social interactions at Caltech in the labs of Ralph Adolphs and John O'Doherty. Sh...
13. Joe Hilgard: Scientific fraud, reporting errors, and effects that are too big to be true
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Hilgard is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Illinois State University. In this conversation, we discuss his work on detecting and repor...
12. Eiko Fried: Being a generalist, theory building in psychology, and useful fictions
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eiko Fried is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Leiden University. He recently published a target article in Psychological Inquiry abou...
11. Jesse Geerts: Finding a good PhD project, reinforcement learning & cognitive maps, and deciding when a paper is ready
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Geerts is a PhD student at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL, in the lab of Neil Burgess. We met a few years ago when we were in the same coh...
10. Hanne Watkins: From academia to behavioural insights in government, Registered Reports, and morality in war
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hanne Watkins is an adviser for the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government. Previously, she was a PhD student and postdoc studying ho...
9. Corinna Kühnapfel and Ian Stewart: EDGE, art & neuroscience, and empirical aesthetics
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features two guests: Coco Kühnapfel and Ian Stewart, who are half of the team behind EDGE. EDGE is an organisation that tries to bring t...
8. Paul Smaldino: Cubist chickens, formal models, and the psychology curriculum
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Smaldino is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Merced. His research focus is broad and includes cultural and social evolutio...
7. Jonathan Berman: Moral choice when harming is unavoidable, simple experiments, and open science
25 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Berman is Associate Professor of Marketing at the London Business School. His main research focus is on judgment and decision-making.In this ...
6. Toby Wise: Risk perception about COVID-19, natural experiments, and open science
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Toby Wise is a postdoc at UCL and Caltech. He uses computational modelling and neuroimaging to study the mechanisms underlying anxiety and depression....
5. Antonia Wesseloh: Fashion during COVID, Antonia's path as a fashion model, and tips for photographers
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Antonia Wesseloh is a fashion model who has worked with some of the most esteemed fashion brands (including Prada, Chanel, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton,...
4. Cody Kommers: Podcasting as a PhD student, intuitive anthropology, and finding a good problem
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cody Kommers is a PhD student in experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, focussing on social cognition. He also writes popular science an...
3. Catherine Preston: Bodily illusions, eating disorders, and pregnancy
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Preston is a cognitive neuroscientist, studying body perception and self-awareness. Catherine and I first met in Stockholm in 2014 when I wa...
2. Aaron Schurger: The readiness potential, auto-correlated noise, and the weather
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron is a cognitive neuroscientist, working on volition and consciousness. Aaron and I met in 2016 in Paris when I did my MSc thesis in his lab at Ne...
1. Matthias Nau: MR-based eye-tracking, cognitive maps & vision, science communication
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matthias Nau is a cognitive neuroscientist at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, Norway. He finished his PhD recently in Chris...