It’s one of the deepest mysteries of the human mind: Do we all see the world the same way? In 1956, three social scientists set out to answer this question. From their offices at Northwestern ...

Overestimating Steepness Is the Rule, Not the Exception The research team, led by psychology professor Dennis Shaffer at The Ohio State University, wanted to explore why people almost always ...

From levitating magnets to mind-bending psychology studies, these ten experiments reveal just how surprising - and mysterious ...

A new UCLA study challenges long-standing research claims that people of East Asian and European origins perform differently on a well-known visual perception test. The rod-and-frame task asks viewers ...

The Chen Lab at Johns Hopkins University is looking for in-person participants for a psychology experiment investigating perception and memory. During the experiment, participants view movies or ...

Have you ever looked at two circles of exactly the same size and sworn one was larger? If so, your eyes have been tricked by ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...