ABOUT
Why we do what we do -- traced back to the actual study.
Hardwired Stickman is one person's attempt to answer the question "why do we do that?" without ever hiding behind vague statements like "researchers say." Every mechanism, every statement and every fact gets traced back to the actual named study behind it.
What's covered here
Human psychology and animal behaviour, and the reason why we subconsciously do the things we do, no matter the species -- trust, fear, rejection, grief, attachment, and all the instincts running underneath things that feel like personality. If it's got a name, a date, and a credible researcher attached to it, we'll use it as a source of information. If we can't back it up, it's not worth mentioning.
How sourcing actually works
Every named concept in an episode has a real citation behind it -- author, year, and ideally the journal & peer review, cross-checked before it goes anywhere near a script. A single study doesn't get treated as settled fact unless a meta-analysis or real replication of fact backs it up; if the evidence is still thin, the episode says so out loud instead of smoothing it over. Pop-science write-ups don't count as the source -- the actual paper does.
Getting it wrong
If something in an episode turns out to be wrong, we would love you to let us know (backed by research and science with multiple sources). The information will be fixed here on the episode page, and in the video's own description or pinned comment if it needs to be flagged there too. No quietly editing it and hoping nobody noticed the first version.
What's AI and what isn't
The narration voice and the stick-figure illustrations are both AI-generated -- that's the format and method of delivery, not something we hide. What isn't automated is the research itself: every citation is checked by hand against the real paper before it's allowed into a script.