Before becoming the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski underwent intense psychological experiments at Harvard. Experts question if ...

A report from a team at Facebook that was first published in a scientific journal earlier this month reveals that the social network ran secret psychological experiments on 600,000 users without their ...

It’s been half a century since Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram convinced two-thirds of his volunteer test subjects to apply increasingly more powerful electric shocks—real shocks as far as the ...

In science, results of experiments are peer-reviewed before acceptance and publication for a wider scientific audience where they may act as source of information for other scientists and/or basis for ...

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 ...

A Facebook scientist says he is sorry for performing an experiment in which he and two other social researchers covertly tried to influence the mood of thousands of Facebook users, making them either ...

REUTERS - The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK is investigating whether Facebook Inc broke data protection laws when it allowed researchers to conduct a psychological experiment on ...

Over the years, psychologists have come up with some ingenious experiments to advance their efforts to study human behavior. But sometimes, researchers’ creativity can get the better of them. Here are ...

The research group decided to take advantage of the potential of the massive multiplayer online role-playing game ArcheAge, where thousands of people interact ...

A simple thought experiment can be helpful in cultivating a supportive inner voice. A recent study published in the journal, ...