Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

by Lauren Slater

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Author: Lauren Slater

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 10: 0393326551
ISBN 13: 978-0393326550

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Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN 10: 0393050955
ISBN 13: 978-0393050950

Through ten examples of ingenious experiments by some of psychology's most innovative thinkers, Lauren Slater traces the evolution of the century's most pressing concerns―free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality.

Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories, chock-full of plot, wit, personality, and theme.

Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century