Accidentally famous: The psychology of going viral ... “Then someone posted it on Digg.com, which was like a social bookmarking site a little like Reddit is right now,” he said.

For more than 50 years, anyone seeking proof that humans are capable of evil need only refer to the electric shocks administered by volunteers in the famous Milgram Experiment. Now psychologists ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment has been included in many, many introductory psychology textbooks and is often cited uncritically. It’s the subject of movies, documentaries, books, television ...

If you were asked to name the most famous psychology investigation ever to be conducted, the chances are good that you’d come up with the “obedience to authority” experiment as your answer ...

Psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, who is known for his 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, gives his final lecture on the psychology of evil. The famous experiment placed students in a mock ...

In 1968, Andy Warhol predicted that in the future, "everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes." He was right, and that was before TikTok, where all it takes to blow up is an iPhone and a pretty ...

Cognitive Dissonance Psychology Revisits One of Its Most Famous Ideas A new paper puts cognitive dissonance back in the spotlight. Posted May 6, 2025 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk ...

But I’d like to turn your attention to the man behind flow. As today is Csikszentmihalyi’s 89th birthday, let’s look at the impact the famous psychologist has had on science–and the world ...

A famous result in psychology known as the bystander effect says probably not, but now a review of real-life violent situations says this commonly held view may be wrong.