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Opening Skinner's Box

Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

Author: Lauren Slater  

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'An unusual and compelling personal journey combining the emotional and the scientific.' - Time Out

A brilliant account of the twentieth century's key psychological experiments, by the author of Prozac Diary

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'An unusual and compelling personal journey combining the emotional and the scientific.' - Time Out

A brilliant account of the twentieth century's key psychological experiments, by the author of Prozac Diary

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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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Critic Reviews

“'The experiments Slater describes are fascinating in their own right, but made more so by the rich social and personal context in which Slater places them'”

'Remarkably stimulating ... Opening Skinner's Box is an endless delight' Mail on Sunday 'Makes for fascinating reading, helped along by Slater's charm and resourcefulness' Sunday Telegraph Daily Mail 'An unusual and compelling personal journey combining the emotional and the scientific ... a warm narrative flow achieved through a mixture of research, intuition, anecdote, reconstruction and engagingly haphazard interviews' Time Out

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About the Author

Lauren Slater is the author of Welcome to My Country, Prozac Diary and Love Works Like This, and has written articles and contributed pieces to the New York Times, Harper's, Elle and Nerve. Her essays are widely anthologized and she is a frequent guest on US radio shows, including 'The People's Pharmacy' on NPR.

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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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Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published
21st February 2005
Edition
1st
Pages
288
ISBN
9780747568605

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