Researchers use small tricks to get experiments to work. Source: Photo by Kyle Loftus from Pexels. How do you get a psychology experiment to work? A new paper in the journal Collabra: Psychology by ...

Psychologist and author Lauren Slater joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book, Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century. These include the noted ...

"Preemptive constructs" are mental structures that favor a particular explanation over others. Used by lay person and scientist alike, they can be self-serving, or biased in other ways. A sports fan ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: RichVintage/Getty Images Psychology is a relatively young science. The first person to ...

The realm of scientific and psychological experimentation often dances on the edge of ethics and legality. Many experiments conducted in the past, once shrouded in secrecy, have been declassified, ...

An unfortunate feature of science is that two experiments that are ostensibly looking at the same thing can produce different results. Often, the different results are greeted, unhelpfully, with the ...

A seismic shift has taken place in the last 100 years in the way we lead and manage people in the workplace. Early 20th-century management focused on workforce efficiency. This was the age of Henry ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still discussed in classrooms and pop culture more than half a century on. But ...

Communist propaganda in the former Soviet Union was based on the Marxist–Leninist ideology to advocate for the Communist Party agenda. This propaganda was one of many methods and tactics the Soviet ...