If you've ever been to a Passover Seder dinner, then you probably know about Elijah. The hosts of the Seder will typically add an extra setting for Elijah who is, essentially, the Passover Ghost.

This refers to the psychological experiment conducted by Polish psychologist Solomon Asch to explore whether individuals change their behaviour in order to conform with a larger group. Asch asked ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. While not quite as infamous as Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison simulation, or Stanley Milgram’s obedience ...

Solomon E. Asch, 88, a social psychologist whose groundbreaking research on peer pressure changed the way people think about themselves in group situations, died Feb. 20 in Haverford, Pa. In 1952, Dr.