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• How the Stanford Prison Experiment Fell Apart — What the Archives Revealed

  The 1971 prison experiment run by Philip Zimbardo entered textbooks and feature films as the story of ordinary students who became brutal guards in six days. Yet the original data appeared not in a top-tier journal but i

  2026-07-26 · 9 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#replication#research-ethics

• The Experiment Where One Dollar Beat Twenty — Cognitive Dissonance and Sixty Years of Rebuttal

  Participants were made to do a deliberately boring task, then asked to lie about it. One group was paid one dollar, the other twenty dollars. The people who later rated the task as more enjoyable were the ones who had be

  2026-07-26 · 13 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#decision-making#mindset

• The Milgram Obedience Experiment Reexamined — the Other Side of That 65 Percent

  The Milgram experiment, begun at Yale in 1961, has been summarized in one sentence for decades: 65 percent of participants went all the way to the maximum voltage. But that figure is the value from one of some 24 variati

  2026-07-26 · 11 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#obedience#research-ethics

• The 38 Were Never There — The Myth of the Bystander Effect and the Real Experiment

  The 1964 New York Times article reporting that 38 neighbors merely watched while Kitty Genovese was murdered gave birth to the concept of the bystander effect. Then a 2007 review in American Psychologist established that

  2026-07-26 · 12 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#ethics#communication

• Crowd Psychology — How We Change Inside the Multitude ♪ Listenable

  Are we really the same person alone as we are in a crowd? Starting from Le Bon's classic theory and moving through the conformity and obedience experiments, the bystander effect, groupthink, and online crowds, we take a

  2026-06-21 · 56 min read #culture#psychology#crowd#conformity#sociology