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  • Lost Wallet Crime and Deviance Experiment

    People are more likely to return a lost wallet if it has cash in it than if its empty In a recent field experiment researchers posing as members of the public dropped off 17000 lost wallets at reception desks of banks, hotels and museums in cities in 40 countries. Some wallets contained no money and…

  • No More Boys and Girls

    No More Boys and Girls (BBC, August 2017) BBC programme documents a 6 week experiment in gender neutrality carried out with one year 3 primary school class in primary school on the Isle of White…. Can our kids go gender free? Doctor Javid Abdelmoneim (*) believes that these attitudes are not just the result of biology,…

  • Sugata Mitra’s Hole in the Wall Experiment

    In 1999 Sugata Mitra put a computer connected to the internet in a hole in the wall in a slum in Delhi and just left it there, to see what would happen. The computer attracted a number of illiterate, slum children, who, by the end of the first day had taught themselves to surf the…

  • Return to Eden and Eden Lost – A Case Study in Problematic Masculinity?

    Starting in Spring 2016, Channel 4’s ‘Return to Eden’ was a year long social experiment in which 23 people moved to Inverness-shire in the Scottish Highlands – their mission – to form a community and survive for one year. The experiment was a somewhat artificial community-experiment – in that the people were selected by the…

  • Milgram’s Obedience Experiment – Strengths and Limitations

    Milgram’s obedience experiment is one of the most useful examples to illustrate the strengths and limitations of laboratory experiments in psychology/ sociology, as well as revealing the punishingly depressing findings that people are remarkably passive in the face of authority… This post outlines details of the original experiment and two recent, televised repeats by the BBC (2008) and…

  • Are Chinese Teaching Methods Best? (Experiments in Education)

    According to recent studies, China is home to one of the best education systems in the world, while Britain is trailing a long way behind. In some studies Chinese students are three years ahead of British students in reading and writing ability. China is well known for its ‘tough education’ methods, but can these methods…