"[The lockdown] is arguably the largest psychological experiment ever conducted," wrote health psychologist Elke Van Hoof of Free University of Brussels-VUB in Belgium. The results of this ...

An international study has identified three psychological profiles associated with different patterns of cognitive and brain decline in aging. The study, which analyzed more than 1,000 middle-aged and ...

From shocking studies to ESP, what do you know about the most infamous and bizarre psychological experiments ever conducted?

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments ... the director of National Geographic's recent three-part series "The Stanford ...

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology’s ...

As a doctoral student and professor of psychology, John Watson studied ... His most famous experiment was conducted in the winter of 1919 and 1920 with a baby known as Albert B.

There, I met (and spoke with) my first psychology celebrity, one of the legends in our field: Philip Zimbardo of Stanford prison experiment fame. In a small room with an audience of no more than ...

In 1971, 24 male college students participated in a psychological experiment that quickly became chaotic. The study, known as the The Stanford Prison Experiment, has since been described as one of ...