Psycomedia Episode 65 – Frankenpodcast Created Woman
March 8, 2013 2 Comments
Psycomedia Episode 65 – Frankenpodcast Created Woman
We return in an International Women’s Day Special (not really - just where we’ve got to in the idiosyncratic naming process)
References:
- Auslander, P. (1998). Seeing is believing: Live performance and the discourse of authenticity in rock culture. Literature and psychology, 44, 1-26.
- Dembo, M. H., & McAuliffe, T. J. (1987). Effects of perceived ability and grade status on social interaction and influence in cooperative groups. Journal of Educational Psychology, 79(4), 415.
- Eerland, A., Guadalupe, T. M., & Zwaan, R. A. (2011). Leaning to the left makes the eiffel tower seem smaller: Posture-modulated estimation Psychological Science, 22(12), 1511-1514. doi:10.1177/0956797611420731
- Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1981). The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice. Science, 211(4481), 453-458.
Cracked.com and its thoughts on Psychology: http://www.cracked.com/search/search.php?sa=search&q=psychology
The Agents of Cracked: http://www.cracked.com/members/AgentsOfCracked/
The Magdalen Arms: http://www.magdalenarms.com/
Media of the Week:
Sim City http://www.simcity.com/en_GB

Josh Widdicombe on XFM: http://www.xfm.co.uk/onair/shows/the-josh-widdicombe-show
Josh with James Acaster:

Also, check out the amazing The Last Leg:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-last-leg/4od
Someone has put all of The Sims 3 Loading Screens together. That’s a lot of splines getting reticulated:


Youse trying to pronounce Saskatchewan was the high point of my evening.
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Sometimes I imagine if we skyped, Timithian, that it would be much along the lines of how I listen to your podcasts. You’d be explaining something sometimes, and I’d just be sitting there looking at gifs of Tennant licking his lips, and tune you out completely.
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Also this podcast just stopped loading then restarted itself due to a donchy router. I’m just going to cry instead of re-listening.
The only possible Kahneman pun is the invention “Can-O-Man” from the animated Tick episode “Tick vs Science”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6i5p8RbTCg&t=7m
My sympathies with your car trouble. I just recently got stranded on the side of the highway in the middle of a Saskatchewan snowstorm with a car that developed engine problems of such a degree that it is not worth fixing (when a mechanic says that he won’t even consider taking your money to try and fix a car, you know that car is toast).
And now, to dull the pain of carlessness, I will bask in the warm glow of having been declared the best backfeeder.