Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
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Book
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ISBN 10
074756860X
ISBN 13
9780747568605
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
288
Description
A century can be understood in many ways - in terms of its inventions, its crimes or its art. In Opening Skinner's Box, Lauren Slater sets out to investigate the twentieth century through a series of ten fascinating, witty and sometimes shocking accounts of its key psychological experiments. Starting with the founder of modern scientific experimentation, B.F. Skinner, Slater traces the evolution of the last hundred years' most pressing concerns - free will, authoritarianism, violence, conformity and morality. Previously buried in academic textbooks, these often daring experiments are now seen in their full context and told as stories, rich in plot, wit and character. - from Amzon
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