The Good Stuff
Harry Harlow recieved his BA and PhD in psychology from Stanford University, immediately joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin. Harlow was intrigued by love. He questioned the theories then current which stated that love began as a feeding bonfd with the mother and applied by extension to other family members. In 1957, Harlow worked with rhesus, which are more mature at birth than humans, but show a range of emotions and need to be nursed. He took infant monkeys away from their mothers at 6 to 12 hours after birthand were raised instead with artificial mothers, one model made of wire and the other made of cloth. The wire model was outfitted with a bottle to feed the baby monkey. But the babies rarely stayed with the wire model longer than it took to get the necessary food.