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 ...

Every day we try to fit in. We may like to think we're individual but most of the time we don't actually want to stand out too much. It's this idea of conformity that the American social psychologist ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. While not quite as infamous as Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison simulation, or Stanley Milgram’s obedience ...

When Eliot Spitzer resigned his governorship for committing the very crimes he’d publicly denounced only a few months before, he seemed mystifyingly inconsistent. Yet one character trait does shine ...