Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
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Book Info
Author
Slater, Lauren
Word Count
72,000 words
based on page count
Pages
288 pages
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Edition Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition Publish Date
2005-02-17
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0393326551
ISBN-13: 9780393326550
Description
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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