While We're On The Subject Of Mothers......
Who could forget those loveable Harlow Monkeys?
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Monday, April 10, 2006
Who could forget those loveable Harlow Monkeys?
The Space Needle is My Neighbor
EIGHT YEARS AND COUNTING
What Have We Learned So Far?
"A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
IMPORTANT NOTE: Click on the captions with dots. They are live links to additional content.
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The back story:
Harlow's name is bonded to experiments that might be questionable today. For example, he separated a baby monkey from its mother and raised it in a cage with two substitute "mothers." The wire "mother" had a bottle for the infant, the cloth one didn't. Tellingly, as soon as the infants finished nursing, they abandoned the wire monkey and clutched the cloth one. Even when raised in cages where they could see, smell and hear -- but not touch -- other monkeys, the infants developed
an "autistic-like" syndrome, with grooming, self-clasping, social withdrawal and rocking.
Drop the banana and raise your monkey paw if you've ever had a relationship that felt like you were clinging for dear life to a "Chicken Wire Mommy".
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