false 639076 6 <B>"A vivid, insightful account....Told with wit and warmth."&#151;<I>Kirkus Reviews</I></B> <P>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&#151;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. 129305 book 2004 Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century total:282|5:76|4:125|3:57|2:19|1:5| 282 1094 519 68 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Apr 19 17:07:26 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 17:10:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 17:03:08 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 17:24:42 -0700 2009 And that is pretty stunning--an experiment so potent it does not describe or demonstrate, so much as detonate, a kind of social psychology equivalent of the atom bomb, only this time in the service of creation, not destruction, for as Milgram himself said, "From these experiments comes awarenes...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 14:55:25 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 15:01:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 14:30:55 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 12:44:15 -0700 2009
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