Improbable Theatre

Why do we love? When would we kill? How do we learn? Why do we believe in the unbelievable? What is memory? Why do we keep doing things that hurt us?

These were questions for religion and philosophy till about a hundred years ago. Then science joined the conversation and, according to science, pretty much everything we think about ourselves is wrong.

Inspired by the fascinating and controversial book by Lauren Slater, Opening Skinner’s Box is a whistle-stop tour of the scientific quest to make sense of what we are and who we are, told through ten great psychological experiments and the stories of the people who created them.