Lauren Slater's Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century is a marvellous book for anybody trying to understand human behaviour. Her perspective is that these famous experiments (e.g. Milgram's experiment on authority) "ultimately concern themselves not with the value-free questions we traditionally associate with 'science', [...] but with the kinds of ethical … Continue reading Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
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6.6 Degrees of separation on average
Stanley Milgram was a very innovative social experimenter. I will keep his experiments on authority for another blog post and instead will focus on his Small world experiment, which I have always found fascinating. In 1969 he tried to figure out whether the world was becoming a "small world" network by sending out packages to … Continue reading 6.6 Degrees of separation on average