An updated marshmallow experiment has surprisingly different results from the original landmark study, so influential to our thinking about children and success. What does it mean?

From shocking studies to ESP, what do you know about the most infamous and bizarre psychological experiments ever conducted?

V isitors to Minnesota’s state fair in 2024 could hear live music, enjoy white-knuckle rides and compete to make the best ...

Each psychology major must conduct an independent experiment in which they collect data to test a hypothesis, analyze the data, write a research paper, and present their results at a college ...

When kids “pass” the marshmallow test, are they simply better at self-control or is something else going on? A new UC San Diego study revisits the classic psychology experiment and reports that part ...

Beginning in 1900, a major thread of research was added to E. B. Titchener's Cornell laboratory: the synthetic experiment. Titchener and his graduate students used introspective analysis to reduce a ...

Decades of social psychology research has established the importance of similarity in leading to attraction. However, in response to early social psychology experiments demonstrating the similarity ...

Experiments Prepare to Test Whether Consciousness Arises from Quantum Weirdness Researchers wish to probe whether consciousness has a basis in quantum mechanical phenomena ...

The field of psychology is trying to absorb a recent big study that was able to replicate only 36 out of 100 major research papers. That finding is an issue, but maybe not for the reason you think.