Fewer than a quarter Milgram’s participants mentioned the importance of the experiment to justify their cooperation. By Christian Jarrett
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One of psychology’s classic studies repeated in 21st century Europe. By Ginny Smith
The new findings help explain why many people can be coerced so easily By guest blogger Mo Costandi In a…
Some classic psychology experiments, known and discussed far beyond the discipline, have become modern-day myths. Accounts of what happened are…
When discussing Milgram’s notorious experiments, in which participants were instructed to give increasingly dangerous electric shocks to another person, most…
Stanley Milgram’s seminal experiments in the 1960s may not have been a demonstration of obedience to authority after all, a…
Stanley Milgram’s 1960s obedience to authority experiments, in which a majority of participants applied an apparently fatal electric shock to…
By Tomasz Witkowski. Out of 30 textbooks, there were just 3 mentions of Kuhnian paradigms.
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
