Opening Skinner's Box

Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

By: Lauren Slater

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Paperback | 17 February 2005

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288 Pages

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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 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.

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"Worth reading for the provocative questions it asks and for the way it lingers over the fragile, human side of psychology." -- Joy Press - Village Voice "A vivid, insightful account...Told with wit and warmth." -- Kirkus Reviews "Neither clinical nor dispassionate... This combination of expert scientific and historical context, tough-minded reporting and daringly subjective re-creation." -- Publishers Weekly "Slater creates for the reader a sense of intimacy with scientists and their subjects." -- Erik Strand - Psychology Today

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