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At the moment I'm about three quarters of the way through 'Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century.' Lauren Slater (psychologist and author) provides an informative and entertaining glimpse into such notable experimentalists as B.F. Skinner, Stanley Milgram, Harry Harlow, and Eric Kandel and touches on what these great experimentalists have shown us about the nature of free will, authoratarianism, conformity, and morality....

A very entertaining and readable book. Well worth a read...

http://www.amazon.com/Opening-Skinne.../dp/0393050955


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Here's my glib reaction to Skinner: if you confine your testing to stimulus-and-response, you will find that your pigeon will respond to stimuli just as you predicted...

I have read that Harry Harlow was an emotionally stunted individual. Nevertheless his experiments are illuminating, I think. I also read that he had a "naive" assistant who once let all the monkeys out of their cages and was found playing with them. Naturally she was fired. Those monkeys lucky enough to have her as Harlow's assistant probably had much better lives than his other subjects.

I haven't read the book...