By Christian Jarrett. Deep down, are we wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, vengeful and selfish?
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Social psychology’s classic studies focused on observable behaviour. Today the field mostly involves questionnaires and key presses. By Alex Fradera
Fewer than a quarter Milgram’s participants mentioned the importance of the experiment to justify their cooperation. By Christian Jarrett
One of psychology’s classic studies repeated in 21st century Europe. By Ginny Smith
In the 1950s, the American psychologist Harry Harlow famously showed that infant rhesus monkeys would rather cling to a surrogate…
Every month we invite top psychologists and science writers to blog about new psychology research.
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…
In Milgram’s shock experiments, a surprising number of people obeyed a scientist’s instruction to deliver dangerous electric shocks to another…
