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 ...

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A creator attempts an extreme challenge inspired by one of the most famous psychological experiments about delayed gratification. Sitting in front of food for an entire day without eating, drinking, ...

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 baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by ...

For years, internet users have claimed the KGB — the security and intelligence agency of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — conducted psychological experiments in the 1960s and found that two ...

There are primarily two kinds of movies about the prison system. One type is the entertaining breakout premise seen in classics like Escape from Alcatraz and modern action pictures like Escape Plan.