Opening Skinner's Box - Lauren Slater

Having studied psychology for a degree before I went on to have an interest in the more medical side I was intrigued by this book as it claims to document the key psychological experiments of the twentieth century. For those who have not heard of these experiments before this book will surely offer some very interesting and indeed very shocking findings. Most notably in this regard is the study Of Stanley Milgram and his studies of obedience in which a large percentage of "normal" people agree to administering enormous electric shocks to others simply by being coerced by a doctor. At times however the author Lauren Slater dwells far too much on the ...  Read the complete review