The authors of the ten most fascinating psychological experiments of the twentieth century, which are discussed in the book, posed the main questions: who are we? what does it mean to be free? how far can a person go by following the order of the experimenter? why do we give up our own views in favor of the prevailing point of view?
The authors of the ten most fascinating psychological experiments of the twentieth century, which are discussed in the book, posed the main questions: who are we? what does it mean to be free? how far can a person go by following the order of the experimenter? why do we give up our own views in favor of the prevailing point of view? Philosopher and psychologist Lorin Slater described the history of these amazing studies in a fun and poetic way, with “leitmotif, plot, passion”, equally authentically recreating the train of thought of scientists and the sensations of experimental animals and … people. The results and their interpretation caused astonishment or anger of contemporaries, furious disputes that continue to this day. Perhaps because they deal with the still pressing issues of our time: cruelty, genocide, sympathy, love.
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