However, when I learn about the darker side of psychology and the experiments conducted for "science" or "national interests, ...

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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.

Fifty years ago Stanley Milgram published his book Obedience to Authority, which described what have arguably become the most famous experiments in psychology. As the book detailed, an experimenter ...

Between 1919 and 1920, John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner conducted a controversial experiment at Johns Hopkins, conditioning fear in an infant who could not consent. Exposed to a white rat and loud ...

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 ...