Before becoming the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski underwent intense psychological experiments at Harvard. Experts question if ...

This bold social experiment forces people to confront a question they’re never prepared for: would they let a stranger live ...

A seismic shift has taken place in the last 100 years in the way we lead and manage people in the workplace. Early 20th-century management focused on workforce efficiency. This was the age of Henry ...

Daniel Coyle describes how Carol Dweck, in her ongoing quest to advance student potential, set out to test and explore ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still discussed in classrooms and pop culture more than half a century on. But ...

Psychologist and author Lauren Slater joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book, Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century. These include the noted ...

"Preemptive constructs" are mental structures that favor a particular explanation over others. Used by lay person and scientist alike, they can be self-serving, or biased in other ways. A sports fan ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: RichVintage/Getty Images Psychology is a relatively young science. The first person to ...

An unfortunate feature of science is that two experiments that are ostensibly looking at the same thing can produce different results. Often, the different results are greeted, unhelpfully, with the ...

The flow of astonishing research findings with business implications has never been greater. Just about every day, we hear about some counterintuitive study from behavioral economics or social ...

Journalist Breslin’s fascinating debut memoir tackles the fallout from her enrollment in a psychological experiment as a child. Born in 1968 in Berkeley, Calif., to a poetry professor father and ...

For years, internet users have claimed the KGB — the security and intelligence agency of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — conducted psychological experiments in the 1960s and found that two ...