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Episode 007: Despite All Her Rage, Ava is Still Just a Rat in a Cage! Ex Machina (2015)
Join Alex in a solo episode as he discusses of the psychological concepts in Alex Garland’s sci-fi headspace thriller Ex Machina (2015), starring Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander in literally the only three main speaking roles. If this is our future, we clearly need to start welcoming our robot overlords.
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Episode 006: Belief in Santa—Placebo Effect? Elf (2003) with Wind Goodfriend
Join Alex and Dr. Wind Goodfriend on discussion of the psychological concepts in Jon Favreau’s holiday classic Elf (2003), where we being the meme game in and discuss how the belief in Santa could just be a placebo effect of in holiday cheer.
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Episode 005: On Podcasts, We Wear Pink—Mean Girls (2004) with Olivia Aspiras
Join Alex and Olivia Aspiras in discussion of the psychological concepts in Tina Fey’s masterpiece Mean Girls (2004), starring Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey, Rachel McAdams (Amy Adams), and Amanda Seyfried in her first film role. The limit does not exist on the amount of social psychology we can discuss. We thank you for being so obsessed with us!
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Episode 004: Don’t Mess Around in Cemeteries! Phantasm (1979) with Randy Stein
Join Alex and Dr. Randy Stein on this Halloween edition of the podcast, for a discussion of the psychological concepts in Don Coscarelli’s cult horror classic Phantasm (1979), starring Angus Scrimm as the horror villain, the Tall Man, in a role so-named because imagination and originality was used elsewhere in the film.
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