An unfortunate feature of science is that two experiments that are ostensibly looking at the same thing can produce different results. Often, the different results are greeted, unhelpfully, with the ...

Researchers use small tricks to get experiments to work. Source: Photo by Kyle Loftus from Pexels. How do you get a psychology experiment to work? A new paper in the journal Collabra: Psychology by ...

"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 ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the ongoing pursuit by psychology ...

From levitating magnets to mind-bending psychology studies, these ten experiments reveal just how surprising - and mysterious - our world can be. Each one challenges what we think we know about ...

When people enter an escape room, they are usually blindfolded and locked inside, tasked with finding clues and solving puzzles to get out. Room 154 is not your typical escape room — rather than ...

Facebook’s recent psychological experiment on 700,000 unwitting users should spur the Federal Trade Commission to examine the ethical issues raised by online research, two professors say in a letter ...

One of the most infamous psychology experiments ever conducted involved a carefully planned form of child abuse. The study rested on a simple scheme that would never get approved or funded today. In ...