Researchers use small tricks to get experiments to work. Source: Photo by Kyle Loftus from Pexels. How do you get a psychology experiment to work? A new paper in the journal Collabra: Psychology by ...

His provocative research made him a popular figure on campus. But his exploration of how good people can turn evil raised ethical questions. By Michael S. Rosenwald Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering ...

Note to readers: this article was originally published as an April Fools' Day hoax on April 1, 2016. This post was contributed by guest blogger Liana Masons, Ph.D. (Head of Research at The Nudging ...

However, when I learn about the darker side of psychology and the experiments conducted for "science" or "national interests," I genuinely wonder if these experiments are truly necessary. I surfed the ...

Normally a mini-essay by a journeyman reporter for the New York Times would not be worth rebutting with another mini-essay. We can all agree that the world has quite enough mini-essays as it is. But ...