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 ...

"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 ...

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From levitating magnets to mind-bending psychology studies, these ten experiments reveal just how surprising - and mysterious - our world can be. Each one challenges what we think we know about ...

The human mind has always fascinated scientists, but the quest to understand psychological behavior has led researchers down some disturbingly dark paths. Throughout history, psychologists have ...

When people enter an escape room, they are usually blindfolded and locked inside, tasked with finding clues and solving puzzles to get out. Room 154 is not your typical escape room — rather than ...

In 1973, psychologist David Rosenhan conducted an unusual experiment to test the validity of psychiatric diagnoses. (Jack Rosenhan) The “Rosenhan Experiment” is one of the most influential psychology ...

In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The ...

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 ...

Duane G. Watson is professor of cognitive science and of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Samuel A. Mehr is a senior lecturer in psychology at the ...