Rosenhan (1973) | ‘On Being Sane In Insane Places’
A decade after the publication of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (by Ken Kesey), Stanford Psychologist David Rosenhan tested the limitations of psychiatry by […]
Articles by Daniel Edward
Atkinson & Shiffrin’s Multi-Store Model of Memory
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Atkinson and Shiffrin provided a key memory model to the field of Cognitive Psychology in 1968. Their model was originally called […]
The Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo, 1972)
Philip Zimbardo’s most famous study, The Stanford Prison Experiment, almost went horribly wrong. The experiment had to be called off within a week because the […]
Communal Parenting (Bettelheim, 1964)
Is a two-parent family unit actually necessary for children to develop into successful adults? Western culture has traditionally encouraged the ‘nuclear family’ – a household […]
Milgram (1961) | Obedience to Authority
In 1961, Stanley Milgram conducted a social experiment at Yale University that would earn him a reputation as one of the great 20th Century Social […]