Saturday, February 5, 2011

Book Reading #13 - Opening Skinner's Box

Chapter 3
Summary
This chapter talked about a case study where a number of normal people check in to a mental asylum saying that they are hearing a voice in their head. This gets them committed. They are then ordered to cease the mental problems and see how long the psychologists take to actually say they are normal again.

Discussion
The idea of this study actually kind of scares me. To some people the accusation of being crazy could damage your reputation enough to not be able to convince someone that they are not crazy. So once you are in it might be difficult to get out.

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