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

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

by Lauren Slater
ISBN-10:
0393326551
ISBN-13:
9780393326550
Pub. Date:
02/17/2005
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
ISBN-10:
0393326551
ISBN-13:
9780393326550
Pub. Date:
02/17/2005
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

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

by Lauren Slater
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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393326550
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 02/17/2005
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 150,841
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lauren Slater is a psychologist and writer. She is the author of Opening Skinner's Box and Blue Beyond Blue, among other books. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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