137. VBT Study Hall: Evaluating Research

How do we know which psychotherapy research is trustworthy? Dr. Alex Williams and Dr. John Sakaluk help us search for evidence in all the logical places: the replication crisis, RCTs, qualitative studies, dolphin therapy, Canadian football, researchers fighting Connor McGregor, and of course, EMDR. This episode is brought to you by MR. BEAR (Meta-analysis, Registered, Big sample size, Experiment, Active control group, Replicated).

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Show Notes:

• Alex Williams’ Twitter
• John Sakaluk’s Twitter
• The Heart and Soul of Change: Delivering What Works in Therapy
• Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect
• Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977)
• Pim Cuijpers’ Publications