This book is the story of the partnership between two Black scholars who highlighted the psychological effects of racial segregation in America. The experiment they developed was designed to measure how segregation affected Black children's perception of themselves and other Black people. 

In the 1970s the behavioural psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led an experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape named 'Nim' was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language. Initially, Terrace thought that Nim could create sentences but later discovered...

This book looks at several aspects of how the mind works: *Making sense of the world * How we perceive * How we behave * Ways of learning * How we think and feel * What kind of person are you? You and Your Mind was one of the Science at Work series. All the booklets in the series were highly illustrated with...