Experiment in obedience was flawed, according to new research Adam Sherwin Friday 05 September 2014 00:03 BST Comments Psychologist Stanley Milgram, pictured circa 1965 (Getty Images) ...

Nat Geo’s new three-part documentary revisits Philip Zimbardo’s controversial saga from 1971, but it leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

How reality TV got so cruel Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun” explores the long history of television’s most maligned genre, demonstrating how sadism won out over naivete.

The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment may have been thoroughly debunked, but its influence lives on in facile TED talks and interpretations of science that purport to deliver insights into the human ...

I think the historical context is really important. In the 50s and 60s, it was sort of the wild west of psychology, and there were lots of experiments done then, like the Milgram Obedience Experiment, ...

The Stanford prison experiment is not the only example of canonical psychology research coming under fire. A number of studies –– including the Milgram experiment, which was meant to demonstrate the ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment lasted just six days, and it took place 47 years ago. But it has shaped our fundamental understanding of human nature. Now many in the field are wondering: Should it ...

It’s difficult not to give away too much about the truly mind-blowing directions that Three Identical Strangers eventually goes in. “Going into the film, I knew maybe a third to half of what the whole ...