Two of the most famous experiments in psychology, the Stanford prison experiment and Stanley Milgram's obedience studies, ...

How does the Netflix reality show 'The New Stanford Prison Experiment' compare to the famous original study, and does this viewer-oriented simulation offer useful insights?

A scientist once convinced a room full of nurses to nearly poison a patient just by pretending to be a doctor on the phone.

As Netflix debuts its own reimagined version of the infamous 1971 Standford Prison Experiment, a key question remains: Did ...

Modern-day replications of one of history's most disturbing social psychology experiments reveal what makes ordinary people ...

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 ...

“Calling this show a scientific ‘experiment’ in any form is misleading,” said one media psychologist.

Ted Kaczynski was just 17 years old when he signed up for a Harvard psychology study in 1959. The young math student joined 21 other undergraduates in a three-year project led by Henry Murray, a ...

One of the most infamous psychology experiments ever conducted involved a carefully planned form of child abuse. The study rested on a simple scheme that would never get approved or funded today. In ...

An unfortunate feature of science is that two experiments that are ostensibly looking at the same thing can produce different results. Often, the different results are greeted, unhelpfully, with the ...