A social experiment is a type of research performed in psychology to investigate how people respond in certain social situations. In many of these experiments, the experimenters will include ...

While 689,000 Facebook users were horrified to learn they had unknowingly been part of a study in June, new research says social media has opened up a new digital world for psychology experiments t… ...

Netflix's recent psychological experiment documentary, Unlocked: A Jail Experiment, has received rave reviews from viewers for various reasons. The documentary examines a social psychology ...

Early in April, my luck took an upward surge, and I was permitted to serve as a human subject in a strenuous social psychology experiment. Or, to put this another way, I went to my 50th ...

Social psychology experiments sharply lose power when they relinquish real social interaction. John Bargh has talked about the change in social psychology. As he nicely put it, the field switched ...

Since November 2011, the Center for Open Science has been involved in an ambitious project: to repeat 100 psychology experiments and see whether the results are the same the second time round.

Many social sciences experiments couldn't be reproduced in a new study, thus calling into question their findings. The field of social science is pushing hard to improve its scientific rigor.

COVID Stress Syndrome: What It Is and Why It Matters Not all measurements are relevant. Source: Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels I shouldn’t have been surprised by the response, but I was. A few ...

The effort focused on 100 experiments reported during 2008 in any of three major psychology journals: Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of ...

As a clinical psychologist, I see the "Twitter Files" as the capstone of a riveting social psychology experiment. Psychological studies suggest that humans have an innate sense of fairness and ...