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Opening skinner's box, Great psychological experiments of the twentieth century., Lauren Slater

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Opening skinner's box, Great psychological experiments of the twentieth century., Lauren Slater

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eng

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Opening skinner's box

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Lauren Slater

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Great psychological experiments of the twentieth century.

Summary

Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Lauren 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

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