We’re talking about a social-science experiment called “the Stanford Prison Experiment” that, for decades, has been used by nihilists as concrete evidence that all humans are secretly ...

It doesn't have a specified goal, she says. Instead, in her view, it is "not a controlled social science experiment [but one] we're all a part of". No one really knows what the final result could ...

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

The idiom “monkey see, monkey do” refers to someone copying an action without putting much thought into it. It literally lays ...