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Opening Skinner's box : great psychological experiments of the twentieth century / Lauren Slater.
- Title
- Opening Skinner's box : great psychological experiments of the twentieth century / Lauren Slater.
- Author
- Slater, Lauren
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BF 181 S628o 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 276 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Through nine experiments by some of psychology's most innovative thinkers, Slater traces the evolution of the century's most pressing concerns--free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these experiments have never before been narrated as stories, full of plot, wit, personality, and theme.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Opening Skinner's box : B.F. Skinner's rat race -- Obscura : Stanley Milgram and obediance to authority -- On being sane in insane places : experimenting with psychiatric diagnosis -- In the unlikely event of a water landing : Darley and Latané's training manual--a five-stage approach -- Quieting the mind : the experiments of Leon Festinger -- Monkey love : Harry Harlow's primates -- Rat park : the radical addiction experiment -- Lost in the mall : the false memory experiment -- Memory Inc : Eric Kandel's sea slug experiment -- Chipped : this century's most radical mind cures.
- ISBN
- 0393050955
- LCCN
- ^^2003018199
- OCLC
- 52902620
- SCSB-14250690
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library