The past contains lot of objectionable experiments. There was the famous Milgram Experiment, in which participants were made to believe that they were murdering someone. There was the Stanford Prison ...

At some point, everyone has done something weird to fit in. Maybe you have lied about your favorite guilty pleasure song to avoid public shame. Maybe you owned seven pairs of bell bottoms in the ’70s ...

This semester, I have found myself in the position of myth-busting in both my undergraduate and graduate courses. So much of what we know or believe to be true gets taken for granted over time, and we ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the most famous experiments in social psychology took place in the early 1950s. Solomon Asch, a ...

At some point, everyone has done something weird to fit in. Maybe you have lied about what your favorite guilty pleasure song is to avoid public shame. Maybe you owned seven pairs of bell bottoms in ...