I’m an experimental psychologist and the author of Experimental History (a popular science blog) and The Strangest Idea in the World (a hopefully soon-to-be-popular science book). Some topics I work on:

  • How people think the world has changed vs. how it has actually changed

  • How to turn psychology into a paradigmatic science

  • Why it takes us so long to discover stuff

I hold degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Princeton, and my work has appeared in The New York Times and The Atlantic, and on late-night TV. I’ve taught and performed improv comedy all over the world, and I once came in second on a British cooking show, although not the famous one. I’m from Monroeville, Ohio (pop. 1,400).

Here’s some of my most popular work:

  1. The Decline of Deviance

  2. Face It: You’re a Crazy Person

  3. Good Conversations Have Lots of Doorknobs

  4. The Rise and Fall of Peer Review

  5. Underrated Ways to Change the World

You can reach me at adam dot m dot mastroianni at gmail.