19: Let us spray: oxytocin and spirituality

Published: July 6, 2016, 11 a.m.

Dan and James discuss a recent paper on intranasal oxytocin and spirituality

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Some of the topics discussed:

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  • A summary of a recent paper on oxytocin and spirituality
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  • Why within-subject designs are a better choice for oxytocin research
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  • The physiology of nasal administration
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  • How do you control for differences in nasal environment
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  • Hypothesis-driven vs. exploratory research
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  • Oxytocin pathway gene
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  • ANCOVA and Lord's paradox (yep, it's called that)
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  • Dan applauding the authors for posting ALL their data online
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  • James disagrees with Dan on approaches to pre-registering studies
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  • James promises never to chew during a recording (sorry!)
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  • Producing research vs. actually reading other people's research
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  • Our first citation (sort of)
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  • How the replication crisis is the fact that we're not doing any
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  • Heart rate variability in oysters (and other animals)
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Links

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  • The paper
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http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/22/scan.nsw078

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  • Dan's blog post on intranasal oxytocin administration considerations
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https://medium.com/@dsquintana/intranasal-drug-administration-in-psychiatry-80d076f1abdd#.dsdrrohdu

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  • Dan's paper on the promise and pitfalls of intranasal administration
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552590

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  • The data from the paper
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https://osf.io/mjhzw/

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  • Our first (blog post) citation
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https://rhythmicpsychology.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/shock-shock-horror-horror/

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  • Can we replicate the replication crisis?
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https://theconversation.com/is-psychology-really-in-crisis-60869

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