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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By Christian Jarrett. Deep down, are we wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, vengeful and selfish?
One of the pairs of cards used in Asch’s 1950s research. Image from Wikipedia. Like Zimbardo’s prison study and Milgram’s…
Thanks for all your entries. This competition is now closed and the winners have been contacted. We’ve got two copies…
Eye-catching studies that didn’t make the final cut: Asch experiment replicated with 6-year-old kids. Still got it? What happens to…
With the help of five to eight ‘confederates’ (research assistants posing as naive participants), Solomon Asch in the 1950s found…
Stanley Milgram’s 1960s obedience to authority experiments, in which a majority of participants applied an apparently fatal electric shock to…
I generally believe that we learn from experience. However, a recent study I did with Karlene Hanko repeats a finding…
I’ve just heard that a new series of BBC Radio 4’s Mind Changers programme is starting on Wednesday 28 Nov,…
