Asch took a number of participants and asked them very simple cognitive questions. To conduct the study, Asch brought participants into a room that had seven other people. However, these seven people ...

In a February article in the online magazine Slate, Columbia University Professor Duncan Watts exhumed the work of the late Princeton social psychologist Solomon Asch to explain what Watts called the ...

Barring a miraculous comeback by Sen. John Edwards, Sen. John Kerry will win the Democratic presidential nomination—despite the fact that most Democratic voters know little about him and don’t like ...

Maybe it’s the fallacy that rewarding literature must be difficult that explains why no scholar has lingered in the literary universe of Polish-born American Yiddish novelist and playwright Sholem ...

This semester, I have found myself in the position of myth-busting in both my undergraduate and graduate courses. So much of what we know or believe to be true gets taken for granted over time, and we ...

At some point, everyone has done something weird to fit in. Maybe you have lied about what your favorite guilty pleasure song is to avoid public shame. Maybe you owned seven pairs of bell bottoms in ...

You’re in a room, participating in what you were told is a visual perception experiment, and everyone around you insists that two unequal lines are the same length. You feel confused, sick, and ...