In 1971, professor Philip Zimbardo put together one of the most intriguing and famous psychology experiments ever: the Stanford Prison Experiment, designed to study the effects of incarceration on ...

Pavlov was much more interested in physiology than psychology. He looked upon the young science of psychiatry a little dubiously. But he did think that conditioned reflexes could explain the ...

"Psychology as the behaviorist views it ... World War I interrupted his work but by 1918 he was back at it. His most famous experiment was conducted in the winter of 1919 and 1920 with a baby ...

They have revisited the causes of obedience in that famous study and ... in the field of social psychology. In the early 1960s, Milgram developed an experiment that measured the willingness ...