One of the most rewarding and frustrating parts of my long career as a psychology professor at a small liberal arts college has been guiding students through the senior capstone research experience ...

"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 ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91. Stanford ...

One of the most infamous psychology experiments ever conducted involved a carefully planned form of child abuse. The study rested on a simple scheme that would never get approved or funded today. In ...

The Chen Lab at Johns Hopkins University is looking for in-person participants for a psychology experiment investigating perception and memory. During the experiment, participants view movies or ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Psychology is a relatively young science. The first person to call himself a psychologist, ...