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There’s been a lot of talk about Zimbardo over the last few months, especially as his new book, The Lucifer Effect, has recently been released. I’m in the process of working my way through the book now and will be posting a review as soon as I can. Here though is a quick [...]

UPDATE: If you’re wanting the Spec 2008 studies see here.
Here I will try to collate all of the full text original articles for the 20 core studies in the AS course. If you know where I can find a publicly available copy of any of the missing ones please let me know. :)
Also, I am [...]

Phil Zimbardo the social psychologist behind The Stanford Prison Experiment that you study in the AS course is visiting the UK to give a series of talks and conferences and also to promote his new book “The Lucifer Effect”. The book (which has a website here) looks at why seemingly ‘normal’ people commit [...]

The massive ethical issues surrounding Milgram’s study of obedience have always made it difficult to replicate it in a psychological setting (although this hasn’t stopped TV companies jumping on the concept). Recently in the UK a group of psychologists at UCL have worked around this problem using virtual reality.
Each of the 23 participants wore [...]