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

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

Lauren Slater

274 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 di...

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