When we're willing to experiment, we open up the possibility of enriching our lives. When we don't experiment, we hold ourselves back. If all we do is what we've always done, in the same ways we ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment had major flaws. We still haven't addressed one big one. Source: RODNAE Productions/Pexels Psychology has dealt with only one of the two major legacies of the Stanford ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of prison ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91. Stanford ...

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. By Carl Zimmer Companies like ...

AS many as 200 psycho-logy pupils attempted “unethical” experiments, it has emerged. Kids also tried to rope younger children ...

The flow of astonishing research findings with business implications has never been greater. Just about every day, we hear about some counterintuitive study from behavioral economics or social ...