“It’s not surprising that in these studies people conformed, because…they’re being pulled in two directions, it’s authority, they might get in trouble or they want to be what’s called socially ...

The past contains lot of objectionable experiments. There was the famous Milgram Experiment, in which participants were made to believe that they were murdering someone. There was the Stanford Prison ...

In the 1950s, Solomon Asch, an enterprising psychologist at Swarthmore College, engaged in some remarkable studies of conformity. Asch wanted to find out whether group pressures would lead people to ...

What causes individuals to conform to the opinions and judgments of others? Why do they need to? When is it an advantage to merge with the group and when is it not? Investigating the social, ...

Netflix's recent psychological experiment documentary, Unlocked: A Jail Experiment, has received rave reviews from viewers for various reasons. The documentary examines a social psychology experiment ...

At some point, everyone has done something weird to fit in. Maybe you have lied about what your favorite guilty pleasure song is to avoid public shame. Maybe you owned seven pairs of bell bottoms in ...

This week I’m glad that those who needed “permission” from our governor to remove their masks will finally be able to breath the air and show their beautiful faces to the world. In the beginning we ...