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) ...

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A recent experiment conducted in the Milan subway system suggests that the presence of a costumed superhero can significantly increase the willingness of commuters to help a stranger. The findings ...