20) Muzafer Sherif: Robbers Cave Experiment

Muzafer Sherif conducted an experiment to study conflict and its resolution between various social groups. The following documentary contains clips, photographs and audios from protected archival footage, from the Cummings Read More …

21) Festinger and Carlsmith: Cognitive Dissonance

Trying to understand how and why people might offer justifications, Leon Festinger and James Carlsmith conducted extended research, and an experiment which is now a classical study, about the state Read More …

23) Philip Zimbardo: Stanford Prison Experiment

A monumental experiment that caused upheavals in the world of science, the Stanford Prison Experiment is a landmark experiment marking an entire era of social psychology. So disruptive that it Read More …

24) Darley and Latane: The Case of Kitty Genovese (Bystander Effect)

A startling crime committed in the 1960s highlighted a very complex issue in society, which peaked the attention of John Darley and Bibb Latane, who conducted in-depth studies about the Read More …

V. Biological and Cognitive Psychology Studies

Studies in psychology, have always been deeply interlinked with progress in other fields, such as neurology, anthropology etc. As a result, a lot of classical experiments that are of importance Read More …

25) Nikolaas Tinbergen: Instinct

Tinbergen emphasized the importance of both instinctive and learned behaviour to survival and used animal behaviour as a basis for speculations about the nature of human violence and aggression. This Read More …

27) Douglas Spalding, Eckhard Hess and Konrad Lorenz: Imprinting

Described first by Douglas Spalding as “stamping in”, the process of imprinting has been deeply studied in both ethology and psychology. The concept was popularized by the extensive and varied Read More …

28) Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky: Framing Effect

A prominent psychologist of the era, Daniel Kahneman studied a cognitive bias called Framing Effect. The following reenactment featuring both Tverksy and Kahneman, shows how this cognitive bias indicates that phrasing Read More …