Researchers use small tricks to get experiments to work. Source: Photo by Kyle Loftus from Pexels. How do you get a psychology experiment to work? A new paper in the journal Collabra: Psychology by ...

Imagine you're a researcher studying how sleep affects mood. To explore the connection, you would look at two key "variables": sleep (how much someone gets) and mood (how happy or irritable they feel) ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed an experimental method to induce a strong physiological response linked to psychological pressure by making participants aim for a streak of success in ...

I've long been a fan of time-limited self-experiments, but I've typically done 21 or 30-day experiments. Recently I stumbled across a YouTube series featuring a woman, Lucie Fink, who does five-day ...

A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by his mother and rejected by the rest of his troop, his zookeepers at Ichikawa ...