The Atlas
Forty Studies That Changed Psychology (Roger R. Hock) collects the most influential experiments in the history of the field. I'm unpacking them one by one, at my own pace — each published episode lights up one cell. By the time the map is complete, you'll have a working atlas of why people are the way they are.
Browse by chapter
01 Biology & Human Behavior
- Study 1 · One Brain or Two? Episode 01
- Study 2 · More Experience = a Bigger Brain? In production
- Study 3 · Is Human Nature "Born That Way"?
- Study 4 · Watch Out for the Visual Cliff
02 Perception & Consciousness
- Study 5 · What Infants Prefer to Look At
- Study 6 · To Sleep, No Doubt to Dream
- Study 7 · Categories Come Naturally
- Study 8 · Acting As If You Were Hypnotized
03 Learning & Conditioning
- Study 9 · Not Just About Salivating Dogs
- Study 10 · Little Emotional Albert
- Study 11 · Knock Wood: Superstition in Pigeons
- Study 12 · See Aggression… Do Aggression
04 Intelligence, Cognition & Memory
- Study 13 · Expectations Create Outcomes
- Study 14 · In What Ways Are You Smart?
- Study 15 · Maps in Your Mind
- Study 16 · Thanks for the (False) Memories
05 Human Development
- Study 17 · Discovering Love
- Study 18 · Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind
- Study 19 · How Moral Are You?
- Study 20 · In Control and Glad of It
06 Emotion & Motivation
- Study 21 · Sexual Motivation
- Study 22 · I Can Read It All Over Your Face
- Study 23 · Are You Watching Your Emotions?
- Study 24 · Cognitive Dissonance
07 Personality
- Study 25 · Are You the Master of Your Fate?
- Study 26 · Masculine, Feminine… or Androgynous?
- Study 27 · Racing Against Your Heart
- Study 28 · The Individual and the Collective
08 Psychopathology
- Study 29 · Who Is Crazy Here, Anyway?
- Study 30 · You're Getting Defensive Again
- Study 31 · Learning to Be Depressed In production
- Study 32 · Crowding into the Behavioral Sink
09 Psychotherapy
- Study 33 · Choosing Your Psychotherapist
- Study 34 · Relaxing Your Fears Away
- Study 35 · Projections of Who You Are
- Study 36 · Picture This: Tell a Story
10 Social Psychology
- Study 37 · The Stanford Prison Experiment
- Study 38 · The Power of Conformity
- Study 39 · To Help or Not to Help
- Study 40 · Obey at Any Cost