If those words sound a bit ominous, it may be because you have at least a passing familiarity with “the most famous, or infamous, study in the annals of scientific psychology.” We’re talking about ...

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What if one of the most famous and influential psychology experiments of the twentieth century was proven invalid? In October 1963, the New York Times reported the findings of an experiment by ...

One of the most famous psychological experiments was the Milgram Obedience Experiment. Conducted in the early 60's, Miligram told volunteers that he was experimenting on whether or not subjects would ...

Don't answer too hastily, but have you ever wondered what you would have done if you grew up in Nazi Germany? Of course, we all hope that we would have had the moral strength to stand against that ...

At first, I thought I was reading it wrong – the youngest sibling is a “faithful and perennial servant”? Didn’t we all know that it is they who have it easiest? But Sarah Bernstein’s Study for ...

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was ...

In the early 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a controversial study in which participants were led to believe they were administering... Taking A Closer Look At Milgram's Shocking ...

In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale, conducted a series of experiments that became famous. Unsuspecting Americans were recruited for what purportedly was an experiment ...