The study on cat sleeping position that we talked about: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00507-X The study on cats and problem solving abilities that was mentioned: https://www.bio.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bpsy/mam/content/papers/isparta_et.al.2020_12072.pdf The press release (in german): https://news.rub.de/presseinformationen/wissenschaft/2025-07-28-citizen-science-projekt-katzenvideos-machen-fuer-die-forschung Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Literature: Emmorey, K. (2023). Ten things you should know about sign languages. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(5), 387-394. The lab of Dr. Karen Emmorey: https://llcn.sdsu.edu/ Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

The discussed paper: Gotzner, N. (accepted). Does it matter what is said and who said it? The interpretation of Trump’s and Harris’ statements in Republican and Democrat voters. To appear in Open Mind. PsyArXiv: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/a4u52_v1 References: Kuperwasser, I., & Shetreet, E. (2025). Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning. Journal of Pragmatics, 242, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.014 Sperber, D., Clément, F., Heintz, C., Mascaro, O., Mercier, H., Origgi, G., & Wilson, D. (2010). Epistemic vigilance. Mind & Language, 25(4), 359–393. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2010.01394.x Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and conversation. In Speech acts (pp. 41-58). Brill. The mentioned shirt: https://www.netflix.shop/en-de/products/stranger-things-comfort-colors-t-shirt-beam-me-up Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

References: Kennedy, C., & McNally, L. (2005). Scale structure, degree modification, and the semantics of gradable predicates. Language, 81(2), 345-381. Kennedy, C. (2007). Vagueness and grammar: The semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives. Linguistics and philosophy, 30(1), 1-45. Syrett, K. (2024). Challenges and Strategies for Acquiring Adjectives. Language and Linguistics Compass, 18(6), e70000. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70000 Tribushinina, E. (2018). Acquisition of adjectives across languages and populations: What’s wrong with them? Cahiers Du Centre de Linguistique et Des Sciences Du Langage, (56), 259–275. https://doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.2018.257 Tribushinina, E., Van Den Bergh, H., Kilani-Schoch, M., Aksu-Koç, A., Dabašinskienė, I., Hrzica, G., … & Dressler, W. (2013). The role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition: A cross-linguistic longitudinal study of adjective production in spontaneous child speech and parental input. First Language, 33(6), 594-616. Ricks, S. L., & Alt, M. (2016). Theoretical principles to guide the teaching of adjectives to children who struggle with word learning: Synthesis of experimental and naturalistic research with principles of learning theory. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 47(3), 181-190. Uhlemann, C., Wartenburger, I., & Hilton, M. (2023). Express yourself! Die Diagnostikinstrumente frühkindlicher Sprachentwicklung FRAKIS und SETK-2 im Vergleich. Spektrum Patholinguistik| 15, 107. Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Sabrina’s linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrina-frohn/ Papers: not THE implicit bias paper but one explaining implicit and explicit bias: “Social Justice in Our Minds, Homes, and Society: The Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Implicit Bias” by Laurie A. Rudman, 10.1023/B:SORE.0000027406.32604.f6 about the implicit association test I mentioned: https://www.projectimplicit.net/nosek/iat/default.html (I was not able to find the study I participated in, but I assume it is similar to this, perhaps was even based on this.) bias in machine translations: „Gender Bias in Machine Translation Systems“ Stefanie Ullmann et al., isbn: 978-3-030-88615-8 “What about em? How Commercial Machine Translation Fails to Handle (Neo-)Pronouns, Lauscher et al., 10.48550/arXiv.2305.16051 comparing LLM and MT “Benchmarking Machine Translation with Cultural Awareness” by Binwei Yao, 10.48550/arXiv.2305.14328 „Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation“, Stanovski et al., 10.18653/v1/P19-1164 machtsprache: https://www.machtsprache.de/ macht.sprache plugins: chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/machtsprache-for-sensitiv/dichlnekfmanlagciihdnkgiefppilol firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/macht-sprache/ interesting reads: „The complexities of linguistic discrimination“, Drożdżowicz et al., 10.1080/09515089.2024.2307993 “On the Translation of Otherness: The Univocal Case of Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, Badenes, 10.7202/1068906ar “Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes”, Garg et al., 10.1073/pnas.1720347115 https://pocolit.com/ Sabrina’s paper: https://publications.waset.org/10014353/bibtex Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

References: https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-lawsuit-teen-suicide.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/ https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/ https://futurism.com/woman-suicide-openai-therapist https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/family-teenager-died-suicide-alleges-openais-chatgpt-blame-rcna226147 https://itif.org/publications/2025/05/21/ai-companions-risk-over-regulation-with-state-legislation/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/companion-ai-emotional-support-chatbots-1.7620087 https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/lifestyle/woman-married-to-an-ai-robot/ https://metro.co.uk/2025/07/14/married-ai-bot-human-wife-doesnt-mind-23628030/ https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo3618528.html https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-13558-002 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Literature: Bromme, R. (2025). Objektiv und unabhängig, aber auch wirksam für das Gemeinwohl: Vertrauen im Kontext öffentlicher Erwartungen an Wissenschaft. In P. Sandermann & V. Schwenker (Eds.), Trust Issues!? - Vertrauen in modernen Gesellschaften. (pp. 233-243). transcript. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.14361/9783839470879 Bromme, R. (2025). Wissenschaftskommunikation. In P. Pasternack, G. Reinmann, & C. Schneijderberg (Eds.), Hochschulforschung: Forschung über Hochschule und Wissenschaft (pp. 511-520). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748943334 Bromme, R., & Gierth, L. (2021). Rationality and the public understanding of science. In M. Knauff & W. Spohn (Eds.), Handbook of Rationality (pp. 767-776). MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. Bromme, R., Mede, N., Thomm, E., Kremer, B., & Ziegler, R. (2022). An anchor in troubled times: Trust in science before and within the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE 17(2):e0262823. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262823 Bromme, R. & Hendriks, F. (2023). Trust in science: considering whom to trust for knowing what is true. In R.C. Mayer & B. Mayer (Eds.). A Research Agenda for Trust: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 37-49). Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-research-agenda-for-trust-9781802200935.html Bromme, R. (2022). Informiertes Vertrauen in Wissenschaft: Lehren aus der COVID-19 Pandemie für das Verständnis naturwissenschaftlicher Grundbildung (scientific literacy). Unterrichtswissenschaft, 50(3), 331-345. doi:10.1007/s42010-022-00159-6 Hendriks, F. & Bromme, R. (2022). Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing. Science Communication, 44(6), 693-718. doi:10.1177/10755470221137052 Wintterlin, F., Hendriks, F., Mede, N. G., Bromme, R., Metag, J., & Schäfer, M. S. (2022). Predicting public trust in science: The role of basic orientations toward science, perceived trustworthiness of scientists, and experiences with science. Frontiers in Communication, 6:822757. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2021.822757 2021 Bromme, R., & Gierth, L. (2021). Rationality and the public understanding of science. In M. Knauff & W. Spohn (Eds.), Handbook of Rationality (pp. 767-776). MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Order the book: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/nicholas-wright/warhead/9781035013982 Nicholas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-d-wright-bba3a065/ Nicholas on X: https://x.com/nicholasdwright Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Find Sophies works: Website: https://psychosophcomic.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychosophcomic/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/psychosoph.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/psychosoph/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@psychosophcomic Newsletter: https://16969776.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAIvA9R-8FBixNmAS194n9r-ZlFB5B3PTfFIaoY5Mau_R9ZZYrUpK9w7XYYc3RkHTgVu9N43iut8Ih3p1LXCTdnbRHIf-5l9dFVcXai4bJE6VfmOZk135dXybNLfSjaPby2EB_RR18dnUfXPgnx_-J9-_BvfT8Ntmb2YSL8kLmD19DMMWz0WHIK650MheVjeYVZRQEiBmECBS Personal website: https://elschner.science/ Comics we talked about: Visual Cliff: https://psychosophcomic.com/2024/09/15/babies-in-front-of-the-abyss-the-visual-cliff/ yawning: https://psychosophcomic.com/2022/07/10/put-your-hand-in-front-of-your-mouth-why-do-we-yawn/ Shoutouts: David Spencer: https://www.instagram.com/davidspencerofficial/?hl=en Science & Fiction: https://scienceandfiction.net/ (you can also listen to our episodes with Helena https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HyJyn7pVteKMmHrv8d7To?si=d4qULUSSQpGUoIiH2CytwA, https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/s2-21-how-does-your-pain-make-me-feelbrain-to-brain-with-dr-helena-hartmann/)

The website of MS Wissenschaft: https://ms-wissenschaft.de/de/ The instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/mswissenschaft/ The recommended show: https://www.zdf.de/shows/mai-think-x-die-show-102 Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod