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IN A darkened auditorium in September 2008, I sat in the audience awaiting the start of a presentation entitled “The psychology of evil” by social psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Suddenly, the doors at ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Stanford Prison Experiment — the infamous 1971 exercise in which regular college students ...

In 1953, the Miller-Urey Experiment showed how organic molecules could have been created by the conditions of the early Earth. Chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey tried to replicate the ...