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 ...

The Brauer Group Lab at the University of Wisconsin Department of Psychology uses social psychology to facilitate classroom experiences that are more inclusive for marginalized students across the UW ...

If you were asked to name the most famous psychology investigation ever to be conducted, the chances are good that you’d come up with the “obedience to authority” experiment as your answer. From this ...

One of the most rewarding and frustrating parts of my long career as a psychology professor at a small liberal arts college has been guiding students through the senior capstone research experience ...

Duane G. Watson is professor of cognitive science and of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Samuel A. Mehr is a senior lecturer in psychology at the ...

Sixteen female rats are heading out into the real world after life at college. That is, their life as study subjects. These rats may not have earned degrees of their own, but they helped other ...

Little Albert was the baby at the heart of one of psychology’s most controversial experiments – now considered “medical misogyny.” For decades nobody knew the identity of the infant, who died only six ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

Nearly 400 years ago Galileo performed the first recorded laboratory experiment, timing balls as they rolled down an inclined plane to test his theory of acceleration. Since that time, laboratory ...