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 ...

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 prison ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Psychology as a subject has always intrigued me. Learning about how our brain works and how different behaviors can be dissected ...

The idea of recreating one of psychology’s most controversial experiments for television should have been unworkable from the outset. When the BBC announced in 2002 that it would run a controlled ...

His provocative research made him a popular figure on campus. But his exploration of how good people can turn evil raised ethical questions. By Michael S. Rosenwald Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering ...

Normally a mini-essay by a journeyman reporter for the New York Times would not be worth rebutting with another mini-essay. We can all agree that the world has quite enough mini-essays as it is. But ...

A recent study published in The Journal of General Psychology suggests that many introductory psychology textbooks continue to misrepresent scientific findings and repeat long-standing myths. While ...

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 91. Stanford ...