Most people are familiar with the greatest minds in philosophy such as Aristotle, Plato, or even John Locke. In reality, most well-known philosophers happen to be male. Women philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Susanne Langer have faded from textbooks and have been somewhat forgotten as the decad...

In the decades following the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, psychologists endeavored to understand the psychology behind mass acceptance of and participation in large-scale moral atrocities. In 1967, Burt Ross' controversial "Wave" experiment into group identification and blind o...

We live in a world that demands obedience to authority which are necessary for society to function. Yet, obedience can have sinister effects on society, as authority figures have little need to justify actions. Conformity is an effect that influences everyone to do things they might not have other...