"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 ...

Perry puts one of the 20th century’s most contentious psychological studies under a microscope in this truly shocking history of the Milgram “obedience experiments,” examining their origins, ...

The MCAT paved the way for other standardized admission exams, like the SAT, and the many sleepless nights college-bound ...

As a clinical psychologist, I see the "Twitter Files" as the capstone of a riveting social psychology experiment. Psychological studies suggest that humans have an innate sense of fairness and that it ...

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 ...

Jerry Richardson, a Cornell university doctoral candidate in psychology, was dashing into a grocery store on his way to a ...

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology dedicated to studying how people think. The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how the interactions of thinking, emotion, creativity, and ...

Dr. Neal Barnard, the Macalester College alumnus and plaintiff in the case against the school for its outdated “show and tell ...