Stanley Milgram
Whilst Milgram’s work has secured him a prominent position in the history of Social Psychology, he found himself suspended from the American Psychological Association for […]
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Laurence Steinberg
Whether you’re a fan of quotes, need a perfect quote to support your argument in an essay, or a simply looking for a bit of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]