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Social July 3, 2018July 3, 2018

Newly analysed recording challenges Zimbardo’s account of his infamous prison experiment

Zimbardo and his colleagues clearly played a much more active role in the shocking events in the prison study than previously claimed. By Christian Jarrett

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Feature October 12, 2018May 30, 2022

What Are We Like? 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature

By Christian Jarrett. Deep down, are we wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, vengeful and selfish?

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Feature July 29, 2016January 21, 2018

10 of The Most Widely Believed Myths in Psychology

By Christian Jarrett In a sense we’re all amateur psychologists – we’ve got our own first-hand experience at being human,…

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Feast May 16, 2015July 30, 2016

Link feast

Our pick of this week’s 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Why We (and My Mum) Are So Glad The…

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Announcements, Twitter November 6, 2015July 30, 2016

The 100 most followed psychologists and neuroscientists on Twitter!

Updated for November 2015, here are the 100 most followed psychologists and neuroscientists on Twitter based on follower counts recorded…

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Methodological, Social, Textbooks July 23, 2014August 14, 2018

What the textbooks don’t tell you – one of psychology’s most famous experiments was seriously flawed

Zimbardo speaking in ’09 By Christian Jarrett Conducted in 1971, the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) has acquired a mythical status…

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Methods, Morality September 19, 2014December 15, 2017

The 10 Most Controversial Psychology Studies Ever Published

By Christian Jarrett Controversy is essential to scientific progress. As Richard Feynman said, “science is the belief in the ignorance…

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Competitions July 9, 2012July 30, 2016

Two chances to win "Social Psychology – Revisiting the Classic Studies"

Thanks for all your entries. This competition is now closed and the winners have been contacted. We’ve got two copies…

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Feast August 19, 2011July 30, 2016

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Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits in psychology: “What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years…

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Feast August 12, 2011July 30, 2016

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Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits from the world of psychology: The Greenfield saga continues. Recall that Baroness Susan…

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