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

About this book

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.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780393326550

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published

February 17, 2005

Pages

288

Weight

8 oz

Subject

Psychology