Slater, Lauren

Opening Skinner's box : great psychological experiments of the 20th century / Opening Skinner's box : great psychological experiments of the twentieth century Lauren Slater - London : Bloomsbury, c2005 - x, 276 p. ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index

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 Latané'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.

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

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