social psychology

Forgiving someone who has wronged you does not make the past disappear — but new, large-scale research shows it reliably blunts the emotional sting those memories continue to deliver, with measurable effects on revenge, avoidance, and benevolence toward the offender. Background Forgiveness is...

The Stanford Prison experiment by Zimbardo matches only the breakthrough of the Milgram obedience test. In Milgram's test, humans were led to giving a fake patient a fatal electric shock. The shock wasn't real, so the people involved in the study thought they were doing it. Only around 10-15%...