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Rent Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Feb 2005
Genre: Psychology - History
Retail Price: $16.95
Pages: 288
Synopsis
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.