There is a scary psych experiment that happened (quite recently, like during the 70′s or 80′s) in a South African army that centered on the lesbian and gay soldiers – they were forced to undergo sex change operations. Prior to that, they were tortured with electric shocks, castration, and other cruel means to get them [...]
I was cleaning up some stuff from my old house the other day when I stumbled upon this box that contained all of my notebooks way back from 10th grade. I laughed out loud as I flipped through the pages and saw that there was more writing from the back of the notebooks than from [...]
In 1924, Carney Landis, a psychology graduate at the University of Minnesota developed an experiment to determine whether different emotions create facial expressions specific to that emotion. The aim of this experiment was to see if all people have a common expression when feeling disgust, shock, joy, and so on. Most of the participants in [...]
Ivan Pavlov is the father of conditioning, but John Watson is a close cousin of this field and became known as father of behaviorism. Ironic how he is known as the “father” of something when his infamy as a psychologist who experimented on orphans precedes his name up to this day. In one experiment, Watson [...]
Using animals in experiments is very helpful in the world of science. It plays a vital role in aiding pharmaceutical companies manufacture drugs that can save lives. However, a handful of scientists take the experiments so far that people can hardly see the relevance for such cruel animal abuse. An experiment infamously known as the [...]
A famous psychologist named Philip Zimbardo led an experiment in Stanford University to examine that behaviour of individuals when they were tasked with paying the role of either a prisoner or a guard. The main goal of the experiment was to pinpoint the attitude change in each individual, and to observe the norms that they [...]
