In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed ...

It focused less on the internal processes of the mind and more on how people acted under given circumstances, some of which could be quite unusual, depending on the experiment. Over the past ...

When Esther Lo changed majors from political science to sociology during her second year of college, she had to field a lot of questions from skeptics about what she planned on doing with her degr ...