Humans are rational beings, yet they're still so unpredictable. These social experiments give us a glimpse into what to ...

A study led by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has determined that the size and composition of our social support ...

The idea of transporting people from various nations onto a college campus so students can study their habits seems a little crazy in 2012. Not in the 1960s. Robbie Kett and Anna Kryczka, PhD students ...

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been ...

A new film revisits a controversial 1961 social science experiment in which volunteer subjects were asked to administer electrical shocks to other... 'Experimenter' Revisits A Decades-Old Trial Of ...

A new school year is upon us. Bullying will continue to be a problem for kids, despite anti-bullying laws. And schools will continue to have science fairs with students presenting their experiments. I ...

How one professor uses online games as petri dishes of human behavior Edward Castronova has been a wizard, a clergyman, and lately, a monster-slaying blonde, all inside virtual worlds. Scholars may ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Source: New York Post/Fair ...

For a few days in 1971, some dudes at a Northern California college pulled some zany stunts in a basement and we’re still talking about it. No, this had nothing to do with playing Jefferson Airplane ...

What’s the best way to persuade the millions of Americans to get their shots? Reassuring public service announcements about the coronavirus vaccine’s safety and effectiveness have proliferated. But ...