To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions ...

Published: January 13, 2025 7:57pm EST 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.

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 ...

Despite the controversy, the experiment is now used in psychology classes all over the world to study evil and the ethics of psychological research with human beings. "Phil Zimbardo is one of the ...

My first experiment may not have changed the world, but it successfully launched my research career, and I fondly remember it as I work with my students 50 years later.

Netflix's recent psychological experiment documentary, Unlocked: A Jail Experiment, has received rave reviews from viewers for various reasons. The documentary examines a social psychology ...

There wasn't even a bell.As it's taught in psychology, it's only harmful on the level of pretending to throw a ball for a dog and the dog goes looking for it, making it look like an idiot. Well ...

But it also hints that the fundamental business of psychology—creating careful lab experiments to study the tricky, slippery, complicated world of the human mind—works pretty well.

In a high-profile blog post in 2013, textbook author Peter Gray decried the inclusion of the experiment in the teaching of psychology, and later called it “an embarrassment to the field”.