A recent study published in The Journal of General Psychology suggests that many introductory psychology textbooks continue ...

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 ...

A new study in The Journal of General Psychology finds that many introductory psychology textbooks still misrepresent classic experiments and controversial debates, despite some improvements since ...

As a requirement for course completion, students in many courses must participate in four hours of experimental research for each of the first two courses they take in the psychology department.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was ...