At some point, everyone has done something weird to fit in. Maybe you have lied about what your favorite guilty pleasure song is to avoid public shame. Maybe you owned seven pairs of bell bottoms in ...

The past contains lot of objectionable experiments. There was the famous Milgram Experiment, in which participants were made to believe that they were murdering someone. There was the Stanford Prison ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. While not quite as infamous as Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison simulation, or Stanley Milgram’s obedience ...

Every day we try to fit in. We may like to think we're individual but most of the time we don't actually want to stand out too much. It's this idea of conformity that the American social psychologist ...

Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein's new book “Conformity: The Power of Social Influence” clearly and thoughtfully lays out the familiar case for dissent. Conformity is dangerous, Sunstein ...