Opening Skinner s Box Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

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Opening Skinner s Box  Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Author : Lauren Slater
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Language : English
Release Date : 17 February 2005
ISBN : 9780393347470
Pages : 288 pages
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Opening Skinner s Box Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater Book PDF Summary

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.

Opening Skinner s Box  Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

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

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