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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.
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Opening Skinner´s Box : Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century, Lauren Slater
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- Title
- Opening Skinner´s Box : Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lauren Slater
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 074756860X
- ISBN13
- 9780747568605
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, True Stories, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Science, USA, 20th century, Opinion Journalism & Essays, School, Stories, Sociology, Professional Literature, Psychoanalysis, Experiments (Science), Experiments, Psychological Experiments
- First published
- 2006
- Original title
- Opening Skinner
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
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- 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.