Dan and James discuss a recent paper on intranasal oxytocin and spirituality
Some of the topics discussed:
A summary of a recent paper on oxytocin and spirituality
Why within-subject designs are a better choice for oxytocin research
The physiology of nasal administration
How do you control for differences in nasal environment
Hypothesis-driven vs. exploratory research
Oxytocin pathway gene
ANCOVA and Lord's paradox (yep, it's called that)
Dan applauding the authors for posting ALL their data online
James disagrees with Dan on approaches to pre-registering studies
James promises never to chew during a recording (sorry!)
Producing research vs. actually reading other people's research
Our first citation (sort of)
How the replication crisis is the fact that we're not doing any
Heart rate variability in oysters (and other animals)
Links
The paper
http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/22/scan.nsw078
Dan's blog post on intranasal oxytocin administration considerations
https://medium.com/@dsquintana/intranasal-drug-administration-in-psychiatry-80d076f1abdd#.dsdrrohdu
Dan's paper on the promise and pitfalls of intranasal administration
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552590
The data from the paper
https://osf.io/mjhzw/
Our first (blog post) citation
https://rhythmicpsychology.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/shock-shock-horror-horror/
Can we replicate the replication crisis?
https://theconversation.com/is-psychology-really-in-crisis-60869
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