"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 ...

Reproducibility, or the ability to obtain the same results regardless of who conducts the experiment or when, is crucial for scientific knowledge and ensures objectivity. However, since the early ...

The lawsuit a Macalester College alumnus filed objecting to the Psychology Department’s use of rodent experiments has been ...

Perry puts one of the 20th century’s most contentious psychological studies under a microscope in this truly shocking history of the Milgram “obedience experiments,” examining their origins, ...

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 ...

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 that it ...

Dr. Neal Barnard, the Macalester College alumnus and plaintiff in the case against the school for its outdated “show and tell ...

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology dedicated to studying how people think. The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how the interactions of thinking, emotion, creativity, and ...