Curiosity Daily Podcast: Early Career Choices Influence Your Personality, Why We Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and Psychedelic Effects from Placebos
Learn about the Battle of Puebla, the real reason why we celebrate Cinco de Mayo; how placebos of psychedelics can have psychedelic effects; and how early career choices may influence your personality.
May 05, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
What You Think You Know About Cinco De Mayo Is Wrong by Reuben Westmaas
- History.com Editors. (2010, March 3). Outnumbered Mexican army defeats French at Battle of Puebla. HISTORY. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cinco-de-mayo
- Battle of Puebla | Mexican-French history [1862] | Britannica. (2020). In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Puebla
Placebos of psychedelics can have psychedelic effects by Grant Currin
- The placebo effect and psychedelic drugs: tripping on nothing? (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/mu-tpe033020.php
- Olson, J. A., Suissa-Rocheleau, L., Lifshitz, M., Raz, A., & Veissière, S. P. L. (2020). Tripping on nothing: placebo psychedelics and contextual factors. Psychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-020-05464-5
Early career choices appear to influence personality by Kelsey Donk
- Study: Early career choices appear to influence personality. (2018). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uoia-sec121018.php
- Golle, J., Rose, N., Göllner, R., Spengler, M., Stoll, G., Hübner, N., Rieger, S., Trautwein, U., Lüdtke, O., Roberts, B. W., & Nagengast, B. (2018). School or Work? The Choice May Change Your Personality. Psychological Science, 30(1), 32–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618806298
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