The past contains lot of objectionable experiments. There was the famous Milgram Experiment, in which participants were made to believe that they were murdering someone. There was the Stanford Prison ...

In a February article in the online magazine Slate, Columbia University Professor Duncan Watts exhumed the work of the late Princeton social psychologist Solomon Asch to explain what Watts called the ...

This refers to the psychological experiment conducted by Polish psychologist Solomon Asch to explore whether individuals change their behaviour in order to conform with a larger group. Asch asked ...

Barring a miraculous comeback by Sen. John Edwards, Sen. John Kerry will win the Democratic presidential nomination—despite the fact that most Democratic voters know little about him and don’t like ...

At Swarthmore College in 1951, 50 students were placed in a room and charged with matching the length of two vertical lines (Asch, 1951). Seven confederates gave the wrong answer for the lion’s share ...

Maybe it’s the fallacy that rewarding literature must be difficult that explains why no scholar has lingered in the literary universe of Polish-born American Yiddish novelist and playwright Sholem ...