Support for LAist comes from
Local and national news, NPR, things to do, food recommendations and guides to Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire
Stay Connected
Listen
Podcasts AirTalk
Psychological Experiments Of The 20th Century
solid blue rectangular banner
()
AirTalk Tile 2024
Apr 6, 2004
Psychological Experiments Of The 20th Century
Psychologist and author Lauren Slater joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book, Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century. These include the noted behaviorist B.F. Skinner, who studied how rewards and reinforcement shape behavior, and Stanley Milgram’s studies of obedience to authority, in the context of the Holocaust, using the “shock machine.”

Psychologist and author Lauren Slater joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book, Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century. These include the noted behaviorist B.F. Skinner, who studied how rewards and reinforcement shape behavior, and Stanley Milgram’s studies of obedience to authority, in the context of the Holocaust, using the “shock machine.”

Psychologist and author Lauren Slater joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book, Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century. These include the noted behaviorist B.F. Skinner, who studied how rewards and reinforcement shape behavior, and Stanley Milgram’s studies of obedience to authority, in the context of the Holocaust, using the “shock machine.”

Credits
Host, AirTalk
Host, Morning Edition, AirTalk Friday, The L.A. Report A.M. Edition
Senior Producer, AirTalk with Larry Mantle
Producer, AirTalk with Larry Mantle
Producer, AirTalk with Larry Mantle
Associate Producer, AirTalk & FilmWeek
Associate Producer, AirTalk
Apprentice News Clerk, AirTalk
Apprentice News Clerk, FilmWeek