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