Over time, humans have developed the unique ability to think introspectively about appearances, motivations and social ...

To discover why so many Germans participated in atrocities during WWII, a Yale scientist looked close to home, and was shocked by what he found.

A small squeeze changed magnetic domains and electrical signals in two crystals, suggesting a way to control materials for ...

Workplace leadership in humans and higher social rank in chimpanzees were associated with greater reported willingness to ...

The New Stanford Prison Experiment’ reimagines Philip Zimbardo’s controversial 1971 Stanford study by placing 30 participants ...

Expressing "thank you" can increase the time you spend with your partner—a field experiment tracking 125 couples over five weeks focused on this everyday behavior. However, it is not a universal rule ...

Glasses are (mostly) brittle, metals can be ductile (plastic), and liquids flow easily. Polymers are interesting because they ...

The series revisits one of psychology’s most notorious experiments, but its producers’ efforts to manufacture conflict ...

The last time someone thought to test what happens when ordinary people are given power over others in an institutional setting, the failed experiment became one of psychology’s most infamous ...

After 29 years in corrections, I thought I understood the effects of power and confinement. The experiment reinforced why ...

The unscripted Netflix show The New Stanford Prison Experiment is based on the failed psychological test ...

"The New Stanford Prison Experiment" ends on a far more hopeful note than Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo's ...