The history of psychology is filled with fascinating studies and classic psychology experiments that helped change the way we think about ourselves and human behavior. Sometimes the results of these ...

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 ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment started as a study on power and behavior, but quickly became one of the most disturbing and controversial studies in psychology history.

The Little Albert Experiment was a groundbreaking psychological study by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner that demonstrated fear can be conditioned in humans. By pairing a loud, alarming noise with a ...

One of the most infamous psychology experiments ever conducted involved a carefully planned form of child abuse. The study rested on a simple scheme that would never get approved or funded today. In ...

An unfortunate feature of science is that two experiments that are ostensibly looking at the same thing can produce different results. Often, the different results are greeted, unhelpfully, with the ...