A century can be understood in many ways
- in terms of its inventions its crimes or its art. In Opening Skinners 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 B.F. 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.