Opening Skinner's box : great psychological experiments of the twentieth century / Lauren Slater.

Author/Creator:

Slater, Lauren.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, c2004.

Format/Description:

Book
x, 276 p. ; 25 cm.

Subjects:

Psychology -- Experiments -- History -- 20th century.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267) and index.

ISBN:

0393050955

OCLC:

52902620

Online:

Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip047/2003018199.html

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