Stanley Milgram's experiment was a controversial test of human psychology that shed light on the limitations of free will and obedience to authority. Milgram's obedience experiments forced a ...

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology's most famous experiments.

He replied and ended up taking part in what would become one of the most famous psychology studies in history: the Stanford Prison Experiment. Its putative aim: to see what happens when you put ...

In January 1973, Science published a nine-page paper written by Stanford law and psychology professor David ... levels of deception in this iconic experiment. Receive a weekly dose of discovery ...

Similarly, the number of participants in the market needs to be rather high, which limits the number of markets that can be potentially considered, and dooms any attempt at an experiment. Yet, Smith ...

"Psychology as the behaviorist views it," Watson ... World War I interrupted his work but by 1918 he was back at it. His most famous experiment was conducted in the winter of 1919 and 1920 with ...