In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The ...

A new study tested open source LLMs for forced complicity in human torture, in a repeat of the famous 1960s experiment - and ...

The University of South Carolina has halted its psychology department’s electrical shock experiments on cocaine-addicted rats after receiving an anonymous complaint. According to the university, it ...

During the first half of the 20th century, Europeans were subjected to extreme human brutality. Millions of people were killed in the first World War, millions of people were killed by communists ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A series of experiments at the University of South Carolina in Columbia involving rats, cocaine and electric shocks has been stopped following a university investigation into ...

Psychology as a subject has always intrigued me. Learning about how our brain works and how different behaviors can be dissected and understood—it's all so complex. However, when I learn about the ...