About
Adam Mastroianni is an experimental psychologist, researcher, and writer dedicated to understanding the human mind and rethinking modern science. He earned his PhD in psychology from Harvard University in 2021 and has served as a postdoctoral researcher and public intellectual.
He is best known as the author of Experimental History, a widely acclaimed newsletter with around 100,000 subscribers that explores psychology, culture, human interaction, and the institutional mechanics of scientific research. His viral essays—such as critiques of academic peer review and empirical investigations into the psychology of conversations and moral decline—have sparked worldwide discussions across academia and the broader public.
On experimental-history.com, he operates under the motto “Find what’s true and make it useful,” publishing bi-weekly essays distinguished by intellectual honesty, rigorous empiricism, witty storytelling, and a profound commitment to open scientific discovery.
You can also find Adam Mastroianni on:
- Website: https://www.experimental-history.com
- GitHub: AdamMastroianni
Articles
- Actually good advice
- I like 'em thick
- Incentives are for losers
- Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners
- The Decline of Deviance 2
- The most wonderful thing that happened to Tommy McHugh
- Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
- Only insane people use the internet
- Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them!
- The 3rd Annual Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree
- Nothing ever dies. It merely becomes embarrassing.
- Infinite midwit
- Help I'm being persecuted
- The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
- I swear the UFO is coming any minute
- Underrated ways to change the world, vol. II
- I know your secret
- Text is king
- How to be less awkward
- The drug that taught me how much I should suffer