A new artificial intelligence (AI) model called Centaur can predict and simulate human thought and behavior better than any ...

Should we do experiments to inform social policy? On the one side of this question are pundits who argue that psychology isn’t really a science and has little to contribute to society. Needless ...

Example 2: Returning to point number 1, quantifying mistakes from experiments can help highlight their small costs.

Like everyone else, Ben Blum believed in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Why wouldn’t he? After all, it was not only one of psychology’s most enduring studies, but also one of its most vivid ...

Pupils at a school in Kent have given up their smartphones as part of an experiment to monitor their behaviour. Year 10 ...

The Stanford prison experiment is not the only example of canonical psychology research coming under fire. A number of studies –– including the Milgram experiment, which was meant to demonstrate the ...

In psychology, Asch’s result is famous, yet its implications for what we might call “social decision-making” (decisions that are influenced by the previous decisions of others) are largely ...

How Is Industrial and Organizational Psychology Different From Other Psychology Professions? Not all psychologists design experiments in labs or work with patients who are struggling emotionally.

The classic psychological example of low expectations left unmet is the Milgram experiment. Brief refresher from Psych 101: Stanley Milgram was a social psychologist at Yale in the 1960s and ...

He is leading by example. In August 2014, he asked 25 independent teams to repeat all of his group’s unpublished experiments, before he submitted them to academic journals.