Opening Skinner’s Box review – 10 psychological experiments explored

Northern Stage, Newcastle
Improbable’s dramatisation of Lauren Slater’s provocative book about 20th-century science is disappointingly predictableLauren Slater’s book of popular psychology, Opening Skinner’s Box, caused a storm among the scientific community when it appeared in 2004. Its critics deplored Slater’s anecdotal, semi-fictional style. Above all, the book was condemned for perpetuating – or at least failing to refute – the myth that the father