Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
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- 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, 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.
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393347470
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780393326550
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Date of Addition:
- 04/14/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Lauren Slater
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Psychology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.