A young rhesus monkey clings to a surrogate mother in a lab experiment. Love is vital for healthy human development. While we take it as just a fact of life today, before the 1950s and 1960s, many ...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching ...
Love and affection are vital for healthy human development. Baby monkeys preferred a comforting cloth mother over a wire mother that provided food. Harlow's experiments showed that affection drives ...