A recent experiment conducted in the Milan subway system suggests that the presence of a costumed superhero can significantly ...

In addition to a psychology blogger, I'm the director of the Psychopathology and Affective Sciences lab at The Ohio State University. I study how people who suffer from anxiety and mood disorders have ...

Reproducibility, or the ability to obtain the same results regardless of who conducts the experiment or when, is crucial for scientific knowledge and ensures objectivity. However, since the early ...

The Brauer Group Lab at the University of Wisconsin Department of Psychology uses social psychology to facilitate classroom experiences that are more inclusive for marginalized students across the UW ...

Daniel Coyle describes how Carol Dweck, in her ongoing quest to advance student potential, set out to test and explore student academic and social potential.

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Sixteen female rats are heading out into the real world after life at college. That is, their life as study subjects. These rats may not have earned degrees of their own, but they helped other ...

SAN FRANCISCO — 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 ...

Daniel Kahneman is perhaps the world's leading psychologist. A Nobel Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Princeton University, he may also be the field's foremost educator. His book, Thinking, ...

n In response to Daniel Stein’s Letter to the Editor concerning “unconscionable” requirements for Psych 101 students, (“Required psychology experiments are unfair,” Sept. 13, p. 6) I am inclined to ...