With the help of five to eight ‘confederates’ (research assistants posing as naive participants), Solomon Asch in the 1950s found…
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By Christian Jarrett. Deep down, are we wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, vengeful and selfish?
Social psychology’s classic studies focused on observable behaviour. Today the field mostly involves questionnaires and key presses. By Alex Fradera
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
The gamers in this study averaged nearly five hours of violent game play per day. By Christian Jarrett
An analysis of 24 leading textbooks has found that many present a biased account of key research areas, and propagate known myths. By Christian Jarrett
A new BBC radio series on negative thinking heads our roundup of the week’s best psychology and neuroscience links.
Psychology research has shown that men and women usually remember things differently. For instance, women on average are better at…
This is Episode Five of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, sponsored by Routledge Psychology. In this…
We think pronounceable anagrams are easier, but they’re harder When you’re trying to solve an anagram (that is, re-arranging a…
