Opening Skinner's Box
Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Published on 8. April 2013
288 pages
978-0-393-34747-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Lauren Slater is a psychologist and writer. She is the author of Opening Skinner's Box and Blue Beyond Blue, among other books. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 Opening Skinner's Box B. F. SKINNER'S RAT RACE
- 2 Obscura STANLEY MILGRAM AND OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY
- 3 On Being Sane in Insane Places EXPERIMENTING WITH PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS
- 4 In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing DARLEY AND LATANé'S TRAINING MANUAL-A FIVE-STAGE APPROACH
- 5 Quieting the Mind THE EXPERIMENTS OF LEON FESTINGER
- 6 Monkey Love HARRY HARLOW'S PRIMATES
- 7 Rat Park THE RADICAL ADDICTION EXPERIMENT
- 8 Lost in the Mall THE FALSE MEMORY EXPERIMENT
- 9 Memory Inc. ERIC KANDEL'S SEA SLUG EXPERIMENT
- 10 Chipped THIS CENTURY'S MOST RADICAL MIND CURES
- CONCLUSION
- ENDNOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- Copyright
