Above is the psychologist Harry Harlow conducting his groundbreaking experiments on maternal deprivation with baby rhesus monkeys and various "Robo-moms."Monkeys as models for human psychology? As we discussed in class , evolutionary biology gives this practice theoretical foundation, but the practice of drawing comparisons across species goes much further back than that - as we saw with Edward Tyson and his chimpanzee a la the Great Chain of Being, and as we will see again soon in the coming weeks as well with other examples.
Here is the This American Life Episode that discusses Harlow's work well, as a prelude to an amazing piece about a boy with "attachment disorder":
Unconditional Love, episode 317
-andy
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