Show overview
They Did What to What? has been publishing since 2023, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 13 episodes. That works out to roughly 20 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 16m and 1h 42m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 1.4 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Martin and Cristina.
From the publisher
Every episode, we read a classic study in psychology to learn the wild origin stories of how we think about how we think.
Latest Episodes
S2 Ep 7S2E7 Stanford Prison Experiment: A priest, a lawyer, and a professor walk into a prison.
Part 2/2 of our miniseries on the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Zimbardo in 1971.
S2 Ep 6S2E6 Stanford Prison Experiment: Let's go bestie, we're building a prison.
Martin and Cristina talk about the famous Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Zimbardo in 1971. Part 1 of 2.
S2 Ep 5S2E5 Spinal Anesthesia: August and August have a date.
In this episode, Cristina covers an early paper on spinal anesthesia in which two German men inject cocaine into each others spinal columns.
S2 Ep 4S2E4 Loftus Memory Studies: Do you remember your car crash?
Cristina presents the original Loftus memory study of car crashes, taught to every intro to psychology class since 1974. The study is often cited as proof that witness testimony at trials can be faulty and shouldn't be trusted, but how was the study actually conducted?
S2 Ep 3S2E3 The Bystander Effect: TV made us zombies
In this episode, Cristina presents the history behind the bystander effect and how the murder of Kitty Genovese led to studies of prosocial behavior.
S2 Ep 2S2E2 Dale Spender: Hiding in Bushes with Recorders
In this episode, Cristina and Martin try to find the original study that found men think women are speaking an equal amount when women speak 15% of the time and men think women dominate conversations when they speak 30% of the time.
S2 Ep 1S2E1 Pavlov: No Bell Nobel
In this episode, Martin and Cristina talk about the very famous conditioning studies of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Every student who has ever opened their psychology textbook has seen a diagram of a dog salivating at the sound of a bell, but did that ever actually happen? Was Pavlov the first scientist to describe classical conditioning?
S1 Ep 6S1E6 Milgram's Shock Study: 40 Men from New Haven
In the Season 1 finale, Cristina and Martin discuss the famous shock experiments from Stanley Milgram, contemporary and recent criticisms of his work, and William Shatner for some reason.
S1 Ep 5S1E5 The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Al Frankin has Jokes
Martin takes over the research in this episode and shares the paper introducing the Dunning-Kruger effect examining incompetency and competency assessment. It's quartiles all the way down.
S1 Ep 4S1E4 Kiki and Bouba: Brush up on your German
Cristina shares papers across hundreds of years to try and find the origin point of the Kiki/Bouba phenomenon, involving blob fanfic and 1800s academic German
S1 Ep 3S1E3 Harry Harlow: What are mothers made of?
Cristina and Martin read The Nature of Love, a study by Harry Harlow famous for generating many pictures of sad baby monkeys and introducing us all to the concept of wire mothers.
S1 Ep 2Little Albert: Noise Metal for Babies
In the second episode, Martin and Cristina read the study of Little Albert, a paper regarded as the foundation of behaviorism and an early demonstration of classical conditioning in human subjects.
S1 Ep 1Phineas Gage - Half a Teacup of Brains
In the inaugural episode, Martin and Cristina read the primary literature written about Phineas Gage, a railroad worker who miraculously survived an iron rod passing through his head.