18) Kurt Lewin: Leadership Studies
Kurt Lewin conducted a study in the 1940s, analysing the effect of different types of adult leadership on groups of young boys. These are to be seen, however, as the
Category: Classical Experiments in Psychology
19) Solomon Asch: Conformity
Alongside the rapid expansion of social psychology studies, Solomon Asch conducted a novel experiment, now a renowned classic, to test how people conform to statements that are clearly, evidently wrong.
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
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
22) Stanley Milgram: Obedience
Around the same time as Bandura’s study (Bobo Doll Experiment), Stanley Milgram sought to study how and to what extent people would obey authorities. The following documentary shows, in full
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
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
V. Biological and Cognitive Psychology Studies
Biological and Cognitive Psychology Studies 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
25) Nikolaas Tinbergen: Instinct Theory
Introduction Nikolaas Tinbergen: Instinct theory Nikolaas Tinbergen: Instinct theory emphasized the importance of both instinctive and learned behaviour to survival and used animal behaviour as a basis for speculations about
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
26) Brenda Milner: Case of H.M.
In the 1960s, an era in which research into memory and its process was growing gradually, Brenda Milner studied the case of a patient named HM, whose identity was later
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