A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by ...

The human mind has always fascinated scientists, but the quest to understand psychological behavior has led researchers down some disturbingly dark paths.

"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 ...

Researchers use small tricks to get experiments to work. Source: Photo by Kyle Loftus from Pexels. How do you get a psychology experiment to work? A new paper in the journal Collabra: Psychology by ...

In 1973, psychologist David Rosenhan conducted an unusual experiment to test the validity of psychiatric diagnoses. (Jack Rosenhan) The “Rosenhan Experiment” is one of the most influential psychology ...

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 ...