34: E-health (with Robin Kok)

Episode 34 · December 22nd, 2016 · 1 hr 11 secs

About this Episode

Dan and James have their very first guest! For this episode they're joined by Robin Kok (University of Southern Denmark) to talk e-health. They also cover a recent blog post that inadvertently highlighted questionable research practices in psychology.

Some of the topics covered:

  • The grad student who never said no
  • Postdoc work/life balance
  • Questionable research practices
  • Torturing data (with rattan sticks)
  • Using the GRIM test to assess data accuracy
  • Unpaid internships
  • Saying 'yes' to opportunities that come your way
  • The Myers-Briggs test is rubbish
  • What is e-health?
  • Are e-health interventions efficacious?
  • e-health intervention implementation issues
  • The poor quality of psych intervention smartphone apps
  • Using "Facebook Live" to broadcast conference presentations
  • The future of e-health

Links

Robin's twitter account

https://www.twitter.com/robinnkok

  • "The grad student who never said no" blog post

http://www.brianwansink.com/phd-types-only/the-grad-student-who-never-said-no

  • The Buzzfeed quiz on 'Which Disney princess are you?' (James is Belle)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mccarricksean/which-disney-princes-are-you?utm_term=.riNJn5DbW#.ci9gL3Xq8

  • XKXD TornadoGuard comic

https://xkcd.com/937/

  • The efficacy of e-health interventions

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wps.20151/abstract

  • Wild West eHealth: Time to Hold our Horses?

www.ehps.net/ehp/index.php/contents/article/download/765/pdf_44

  • Smartphone app interventions

http://www.jmir.org/2013/11/e247/

  • Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/

  • Twitter account

https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast

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