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experimental psychology
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Experimental psychology is the use of controlled scientific experiments to study how people think, feel, and behave. This approach matters because it helps psychologists test ideas rigorously and understand the causes of psychological processes rather than just observing patterns.
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Research
105,711 papers- Experimental psychology: continuity and change.Experimental psychology · 2009
- Experimental psychology: toward reproducible research.Experimental psychology · 2014
- Body ownership and the experimental psychology of the self.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2025
- Experimental psychology: new standards.Experimental psychology · 2015
- Experimental psychology generally, and the journal today.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2018
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- experimental science
- Part of
- psychology
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
Experimental psychology is the work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, including (among others) sensation, perception, memory, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion; developmental processes, social psychology, and the neural substrates of all of these.
History
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