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- Title
Mothers, machines, and morals: Harry Harlow's work on primate love from lab to legend.
- Authors
Vicedo, Marga
- Abstract
The article examines the research done by psychologist Harry Harlow on the nature of love, specifically maternal love. The traditional historical assessment that Harlow's experiments with monkeys proved the biological origins of the necessity for maternal care of infants in creating adult sexual adjustment and mental health is challenged. Harlow is said to have been far more empirical in his work, altering his theories as experimental results which diverged from that initial hypothesis emerged.
- Subjects
HARLOW, Harry Frederick, 1905-1981; MATERNAL love; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; NEWBORN infant care; INFANT care; HISTORY of psychology -- 20th century; PSYCHOLOGICAL research
- Publication
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2009, Vol 45, Issue 3, p193
- ISSN
0022-5061
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jhbs.20378