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 ...

Little Albert was the baby at the heart of one of psychology’s most controversial experiments – now considered “medical misogyny.” For decades nobody knew the identity of the infant, who died only six ...

The brain is a mere piece of furniture in the vastness of the cosmos, subject to the same physical laws as asteroids, electrons or photons. On the surface, its three pounds of neural tissue seem to ...

Here’s a thought experiment. You’re a pediatrician. A child walks into your consulting room accompanied by a concerned mother. You do tests, you observe. Fairly quickly you arrive at a diagnosis.

Some psychological experiments are so profound in what they demonstrate about human nature that they end up assuming an iconic status in popular culture. Three of the most famous experiments to have ...