**Full show notes** Dan and James discuss a recent paper on intranasal oxytocin and spirituality Some of the topics discussed: - A summary of a recent paper on oxytocin and spirituality - Why within-subject designs are a better choice for oxytocin research - The physiology of nasal administration - How do you control for differences in nasal environment - Hypothesis-driven vs. exploratory research - Oxytocin pathway gene - ANCOVA and Lord's paradox (yep, it's called that) - Dan applauding the authors for posting ALL their data online - James disagrees with Dan on approaches to pre-registering studies - James promises never to chew during a recording (sorry!) - Producing research vs. actually reading other people's research - Our first citation (sort of) - How the replication crisis is the fact that we're not doing any - Heart rate variability in oysters (and other animals) Links - The paper https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/10/1579/2413952 - Dan's blog post on intranasal oxytocin administration considerations https://medium.com/@dsquintana/intranasal-drug-administration-in-psychiatry-80d076f1abdd - Dan's paper on the promise and pitfalls of intranasal administration www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552590 - The data from the paper osf.io/mjhzw/ - Our first (blog post) citation https://rhythmicpsychology.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/shock-shock-horror-horror/ - Can we replicate the replication crisis? https://theconversation.com/is-psychology-really-in-crisis-60869 Facebook page www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Twitter account www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast