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

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Experimental Psychology, History
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Author: Lauren Slater ISBN: 9780393347470
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: February 17, 2005
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Lauren Slater
ISBN: 9780393347470
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: February 17, 2005
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

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, morality.

Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, she 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, full of plot, wit, personality, and theme.

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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, morality.

Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, she 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, full of plot, wit, personality, and theme.

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