In the thirty years he spent with Irene, Alex demonstrated an incredible ability to communicate and understand complex ideas. Yet this is much more than the story of a scientific breakthrough. Alex and Irene were emotionally connected: he missed her when she was away; he was jealous when she paid attention to others.
The story follows Peanut and Moe on a camping adventure, highlighting their contrasting desires—Peanut is eager to swim while Moe insists on waiting. This cheerful tale explores themes of patience and friendship, showcasing how the characters navigate their differences in a fun and engaging way.
The story revolves around the contrasting personalities of Peanut, an exuberant and messy character, and Moe, a neat and quiet friend. Their dynamic showcases the challenges and joys of friendship as they navigate their differences in habits and desires. Through colorful illustrations, the narrative explores themes of acceptance and understanding, ultimately questioning whether these two can learn to appreciate what makes them unique while still being best friends.
In the summer of 1961, a group of men and women at Yale volunteered for a memory experiment to be conducted by the young, dynamic psychologist Stanley Milgram. The volunteers were placed in front of a shock machine and asked to administer a series of electric shocks to a man they'd just met. What they didn't know was that the man was an actor, the shocks were fake, and what was really being tested was just how far they would go. None of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation the results would cause. Milgram reported that the volunteers had repeatedly shocked a man they believed to be in severe pain, possibly even dying, because an authority figure had told them to. He linked this behavior to atrocities perpetrated by ordinary people under the Nazi regime. In Behind the Shock Machine, psychologist and author Gina Perry unearths the full story of this controversial experiment and its startling repercussions. Interviewing the original participants and delving deep into the Yale archives and Milgram's unpublished files and notebooks, she pieces together a more complex picture of this flawed experiment: volunteers were not as obedient as later claimed; they were subjected to more intense and sustained pressure; some left unaware that the shocks had been faked; and, most significantly, many participants remain haunted by what they had done. Fleshed out with dramatic transcripts of the tests themselves, Perry puts a human face on the statistics and offers a gripping, unforgettable tale of one man's ambition and an experiment that defined a generation
An Irish Independentbook of the year. The fascinating true story of one of the most controversial psychological experiments of the modern era -- a real-life Lord of the Flies. Competition. Prejudice. Discrimination. Conflict. In 1954, a group of boys attended a remote summer camp where they were split into two groups, and encouraged to bully, harass, and demonise each other. The results would make history as one of social psychology's classic -- and most controversial -- studies: the Robbers Cave experiment. Conducted at the height of the Cold War, officially the experiment had a happy ending: the boys reconciled, and psychologist Muzafer Sherif demonstrated that while hatred and violence are powerful forces, so too are cooperation and harmony. Today it is proffered as proof that under the right conditions warring groups can make peace. Yet the true story of the experiments is far more complex, and more chilling. In The Lost Boys, Gina Perry explores the experiment and its consequences, tracing the story of Sherif, a troubled outsider who struggled to craft an experiment that would vanquish his personal demons. Drawing on archival material and new interviews, Perry pieces together a story of drama, mutiny, and intrigue that has never been told before.
V roce 1954 odjely dvě skupinky chlapců na odlehlý letní tábor, kde byly podněcovány k tomu, aby se navzájem šikanovaly, obtěžovaly a démonizovaly. Závěry vstoupily do dějin jako jedna z klasických a nejkontroverznějších studií sociální psychologie: experiment ve Státním parku Robbers Cave. Experiment byl proveden na vrcholu studené války a měl šťastný konec: chlapci se usmířili a psycholog Muzafer Sherif demonstroval, že i když jsou nenávist a násilí mocné síly, mají zrovna takovou moc spolupráce a harmonie. Dnes se pokus předkládá jako důkaz, že za správných podmínek se mohou válčící strany udobřit. Avšak skutečný příběh těchto experimentů je daleko složitější a mrazivější. V knize Ztracení chlapci zkoumá Gena Perryová experiment s jeho následky. Sleduje příběh Sherifa, bouřlivého outsidera, který usiloval o vytvoření takového pokusu, jenž by porazil jeho osobní démony. Perryová čerpá z archivních materiálů a nových rozhovorů a skládá dohromady příběh o dramatu, vzpouře a intrikách, jaký se nikdy předtím nevyprávěl.