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. From this ...

We know that psychology has a big WEIRD problem—that a majority of insights drawn from the discipline are down to a very homogenous set of people (those from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, ...

Fifty years ago Stanley Milgram published his book Obedience to Authority, which described what have arguably become the most famous experiments in psychology. As the book detailed, an experimenter ...

Duane G. Watson is professor of cognitive science and of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Samuel A. Mehr is a senior lecturer in psychology at the ...

The following four experiments shattered my perceptions about how the mind works. Shattered. I used to think I knew my mind. I believed that I truly understood how it works. But when I read about ...

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Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology dedicated to studying how people think. The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how the interactions of thinking, emotion, creativity, and ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former Macalester College animal laboratory workers joined distinguished alumni and more than 130 mental health professionals and animal welfare experts to call on Macalester ...