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Opening
Skinner's Box
(Hardcover - 2004)
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, 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.
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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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