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 ...

What causes individuals to conform to the opinions and judgments of others? Why do they need to? When is it an advantage to merge with the group and when is it not? Investigating the social, ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. While not quite as infamous as Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison simulation, or Stanley Milgram’s obedience ...