Skinner's experiments immediately came to mind as a good example of how psychology can be scientific, but the way you associated it with steemit rewards was a stroke of inspiration!
Daniel Kahneman is a more modern example I like to refer to in these types of discussion, his book Thinking Fast and Slow is pure gold; in his research he combined psychology and economics and other disciplines, and won the Nobel Prize for his (non-scientific?) work.
About the Milgram experiments, it's one of the few that I don't feel at all certain what I would do in their case, especially when I was younger.
Speaking of Milgram, although usually biographical movies about scientists aren't that good, I found Experimenter to be an exception, in case you haven't watched it.
Thank you 😊
I did enjoy Experimenter very much @alexander.alexis. And, yes, Thinking Fast and Slow is a classic among psychologists and economists, no doubt! So, sice we’re exchanging info here, have you read Nudge, not as deep as Daniel Kahnema’s master piece, but also very much worth a read. As for movies, what about the Sandford Experiment? I recommend it! It is a bleak movie, though. I am a fan of Zimbardo also.
I don't remember if I saw a movie called the Stanford Experiment, though it does ring a bell, but I surely watched documentaries about it and listened to lectures and read articles of Zimbardo's. I hadn't heard about Nudge though and haven't read it. I'll add it to my (very long) wishlist!