A fascinating new book looks at how experimentation with psychedelics altered the course of American psychiatry.

In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The ...

How a 1960s art school experiment proved that the most compelling artists seek to find problems, not solve them.

A new study in The Journal of General Psychology finds that many introductory psychology textbooks still misrepresent classic experiments and controversial debates, despite some improvements since ...

An innovative James Cook University experiment has found rap-related cues shape how people judge a hypothetical fan accused ...

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a research team has developed a behavior-based safety ...

Between 1919 and 1920, John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner conducted a controversial experiment at Johns Hopkins, conditioning fear in an infant who could not consent. Exposed to a white rat and loud ...

New trend for dating is grim-keeping. People are looking to date someone with the same hatreds and dislikes. This is dicey.

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 25 international members in recognition of ...