In the summer of 1971, a group of ordinary college students walked into a mock prison set up in the basement of Stanford University's psychology department, and within days, something deeply ...

Researchers use small tricks to get experiments to work. Source: Photo by Kyle Loftus from Pexels. How do you get a psychology experiment to work? A new paper in the journal Collabra: Psychology by ...

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 ...

As a requirement for course completion, students in many courses must participate in four hours of experimental research for each of the first two courses they take in the psychology department.

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 ...