A century can be understood in many ways
- in terms of its inventions its crimes or its art In Opening Skinner's Box Lauren Slater sets out to investigate the twentieth century through a series of ten fascinating witty & sometimes shocking accounts of its key psychological experiments Starting with the founder of modern scientific experimentation BF Skinner Slater traces the evolution of the last hundred years' most pressing concerns
- free will authoritarianism violence conformity & morality Previously buried in academic textbooks these often daring experiments are now seen in their full context & told as stories rich in plot wit & character