| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

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Rebecca Lemov. World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes and Men. New York: Hill and Wang. 2005. Pp. 291. $30.00.

Rebecca Lemov's book is a three-part overview of American behavioral psychology, roughly between the Progressive era and the early 1970s, written in a popular or "crossover" style. The first part covers the origins of behaviorism, centering on the work of Jacques Loeb, James Watson, and B. F. Skinner and on the Rockefeller Foundation's funding of psychology and social science before World War II. The second part, the heart of the book, concerns the encounter between behaviorism and psychoanalysis or, more precisely, behaviorist attempts to translate psychoanalysis into the language of conditioned responses between the 1930s and the 1960s. The third part is centered on the Cold War and includes material on brainwashing, the famous Milgram experiments on authority, and Yale University's Institute of Human Relations. Overall, the material is familiar and the treatment competent but profoundly undertheorized.

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