Atlas Trail
Landmark Experiments and Psychology's Reckoning With Itself
Six of psychology's most cited studies, and the historians and psychologists who later re-examined what they actually showed -- ending with the 2015 project that measured how much of the field's published literature replicates at all.
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Studies and Experiments
The Stanford Prison Experiment (1971): the canonical demonstration of situational power, and the 2018 Le Texier investigation that challenged how it was staged.
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Studies and Experiments
Milgram's Obedience Experiments (1961): extreme compliance with an authority figure, and the "engaged followership" account that reframes why.
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Studies and Experiments
The Little Albert Experiment (1920): a founding demonstration of conditioned fear, whose child subject's own identity is still contested.
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Studies and Experiments
The Bobo Doll Experiment (1961): Bandura's demonstration of learning aggression by observation, still central to social learning theory.
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Theories and Concepts
The replication crisis: the field's own name for this reckoning, and the reforms it has driven since the early 2010s.
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Studies and Experiments
The Reproducibility Project: Psychology (2015): the measurement that turned the reckoning into a number -- 36 percent.
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