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
By Emma Young. When obeying orders to hurt someone, people showed less activity in brain networks involved in feeling another’s pain
The new findings help explain why many people can be coerced so easily By guest blogger Mo Costandi In a…
Social psychology’s classic studies focused on observable behaviour. Today the field mostly involves questionnaires and key presses. By Alex Fradera
By Christian Jarrett. Deep down, are we wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, vengeful and selfish?
Some classic psychology experiments, known and discussed far beyond the discipline, have become modern-day myths. Accounts of what happened are…
In the 1950s, the American psychologist Harry Harlow famously showed that infant rhesus monkeys would rather cling to a surrogate…
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When discussing Milgram’s notorious experiments, in which participants were instructed to give increasingly dangerous electric shocks to another person, most…
