Each of us is programmed to obey authority, even if that authority commands us to do evil. That was the controversial finding of a series of psychological experiments done in the 1960s, now known ...

Reproducibility, or the ability to obtain the same results regardless of who conducts the experiment or when, is crucial for scientific knowledge and ensures objectivity. However, since the early ...

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In 1971, professor Philip Zimbardo put together one of the most intriguing and famous psychology experiments ever: the Stanford Prison Experiment, designed to study the effects of incarceration on ...

A new documentary series on the study challenges us to reimagine what we’ve learned The summer before his freshmen year of college, in 1971, Clay Ramsay lived with a few buddies just a few steps from ...

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