One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined...
People are more likely to refuse treatment for mental disorders, or end their treatment early, when they are offered only psychotropic drugs instead of psychotherapy, finds a meta-analysis in Psychotherapy. Researchers analyzed 186 studies of patients seeking help for...
Research Topic 1: Children who don’t get enough sleep in their preschool and early elementary years are more likely to have behavioral and cognitive problems at age 7, finds a study involving 1,046 children in Academic Pediatrics. The study...
Many people perceive young black men to be larger and more physically threatening than similarly sized young white men, finds a study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In a series of seven experiments, researchers showed more...
One out of every 100 special education students was restrained by school personnel or secluded in school from his or her peers in the 2013-14 school year, presumably to quell behavior that teachers considered disruptive or dangerous. That means...