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

Lauren Slater

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#3153 of 3,809 books · #407 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2004).

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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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13
9780393347470
Topics
Psychology experimentsHuman behaviorHistory of psychology

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