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Author Slater, Lauren.

Title Opening Skinner's box : great psychological experiments of the twentieth century / Lauren Slater
Edition First edition
Published New York : W.W. Norton, [2004]
©2004

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Description x, 276 pages ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Opening Skinner's Box: B. F. Skinner's Rat Race -- 2. Obscura: Stanley Milgram and Obedience to Authority -- 3. On Being Sane in Insane Places: Experimenting with Psychiatric Diagnosis -- 4. In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: Darley and Latane's Training Manual - A Five-Stage Approach -- 5. Quieting the Mind: The Experiments of Leon Festinger -- 6. Monkey Love: Harry Harlow's Primates -- 7. Rat Park: The Radical Addiction Experiment -- 8. Lost in the Mall: The False Memory Experiment -- 9. Memory Inc.: Eric Kandel's Sea Slug Experiment -- 10. Chipped: This Century's Most Radical Mind Cures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Psychology -- Experiments -- History -- 20th century.
LC no. 2003018199
ISBN 0393050955
0393326551