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

ISBN: 9780393050950 | 0393050955
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date: 2/1/2004

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SummaryTable of Contents
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, morality. Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, she 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, full of plot, wit, personality, and theme.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSix
INTRODUCTION1(223)
1 Opening Skinner's Box
B.F. SKINNER'S RAT RACE
6(26)
2 Obscura
STANLEY MILGRAM AND OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY
32(32)
3 On Being Sane In Insane Places
EXPERIMENTING WITH PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS
64(30)
4 In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing
DARLEY AND LATANÉ'S TRAINING MANUAL-A FIVE-STAGE APPROACH
94(19)
5 Quieting the Mind
THE EXPERIMENTS OF LEON FESTINGER
113(20)
6 Monkey Love
HARRY HARLOW'S PRIMATES
133(24)
7 Rat Park
THE RADICAL ADDICTION EXPERIMENT
157(25)
8 Lost in the Mall
THE FALSE MEMORY EXPERIMENT
182(23)
9 Memory Inc.
ERIC KANDEL'S SEA SLUG EXPERIMENT
205(19)
10 Chipped
THIS CENTURY'S MOST RADICAL MIND CURES
224(26)
CONCLUSION250(7)
ENDNOTES257(12)
INDEX269

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