Opening Skinner's Box

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Opening Skinner's Box is written by Lauren Slater and published by W. W. Norton & Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0393347478 (ISBN 10) and 9780393347470 (ISBN 13).

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.