19: Let us spray: oxytocin and spirituality

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 Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Twitter account https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast