From shocking studies to ESP, what do you know about the most infamous and bizarre psychological experiments ever conducted?

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest ...

The questions that arise at the intersection of family life, societal pressures, and psychological struggles may be answered ...

Ever tried not to think about something, only to think about it even more? The 'pink elephant' experiment reveals why that ...

Some of these experiments occurred before strong protections ... Test yourself on the weird history of some of psychology's most infamous studies here.

Numerous experiments under Harvard's auspices employ human subjects. Many are in psychology and the other social sciences, but there are others in the physical sciences and biology. Such ...

There, I met (and spoke with) my first psychology celebrity, one of the legends in our field: Philip Zimbardo of Stanford prison experiment fame. In a small room with an audience of no more than ...

Several prisoners left the experiment early, some reporting extreme emotional distress. On day five, Zimbardo's then-girlfriend, Christina Maslach, an assistant professor of psychology at the ...