Opening Skinners Box: Great Psychological Experiments Of The Twentieth Century

by Lauren Slater

2021-01-09 18:47:34

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... Read more
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.

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File size8.2 X 5.4 X 0.64 in
Print pages288
PublisherWW Norton
Publication date February 22, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780393326550
A psychologist and writer, Lauren Slater is the author of five books of nonfiction and two memoirs, as well as a collection of short stories. She has received numerous awards, including a 2004 Nationa...

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