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Cognition, Feature, Perception May 16, 2018February 20, 2019

Three years of research into #thedress, digested – a lesson in humility for perceptual science

Even the best perception experts in the land cannot predict whether you will see the dress as black and blue or white and gold. By Christian Jarrett

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Feature October 12, 2018May 30, 2022

What Are We Like? 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature

By Christian Jarrett. Deep down, are we wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, vengeful and selfish?

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Social, Textbooks March 25, 2015April 27, 2018

Textbook coverage of this classic social psychology study has become increasingly biased

One of the pairs of cards used in Asch’s 1950s research. Image from Wikipedia. Like Zimbardo’s prison study and Milgram’s…

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Competitions July 9, 2012July 30, 2016

Two chances to win "Social Psychology – Revisiting the Classic Studies"

Thanks for all your entries. This competition is now closed and the winners have been contacted. We’ve got two copies…

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Extras November 29, 2011July 30, 2016

Extras

Eye-catching studies that didn’t make the final cut: Asch experiment replicated with 6-year-old kids. Still got it? What happens to…

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Methodological, Methods, Social October 22, 2010June 17, 2019

Asch’s "conformity study" without the confederates

With the help of five to eight ‘confederates’ (research assistants posing as naive participants), Solomon Asch in the 1950s found…

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Social April 2, 2010December 11, 2017

Milgram’s personal archive reveals how he created the ‘strongest obedience situation’

Stanley Milgram’s 1960s obedience to authority experiments, in which a majority of participants applied an apparently fatal electric shock to…

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One nagging thing October 4, 2009

Paul Rozin: Time management

I generally believe that we learn from experience. However, a recent study I did with Karlene Hanko repeats a finding…

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Uncategorized November 26, 2007July 30, 2016

Mind Changers

I’ve just heard that a new series of BBC Radio 4’s Mind Changers programme is starting on Wednesday 28 Nov,…

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