Affections and conventions.

McKinney, Fred

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“…Sigmund Freud's idea of basic human motives remained prominent among researchers decades after his death in 1939. With such, developmental psychologists of the 1950s explained the nature of affection as a series of learned affectional responses that generalized from the initial and intimate relationship between a child and his/her mother (e.g., Benedek, 1946;McKinney, 1949;Heathers, 1955;Gluck, 1997;Shaver & Mikulincer, 2006). More specifically, the affection between a child and a mother was believed to be exclusively dependent upon a reduction of primary drives -that is, the child initially experienced affection towards his/her mother as the direct result of being fed, hydrated, and relieved of pain.…”

Section: The Predominant Beliefs Of the Timementioning

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Harlow’s Famous Monkey Study: The Historical and Contemporary Significance of the Nature of Love

Radetzki¹

2018

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If you were to contemplate what it meant to be loved or what exactly makes you love another individual, the brunt of your conceptualization may very well stem back to Harry Harlow’s famous 1958 study, “The Nature of Love.” At a time that approached love as a child’s need to reduce primary drives via his/her mother, Harlow aimed to identify other variables that could explain the underlying affection of an infant-mother bond – such as contact comfort. To do this, Harlow conducted a series of investigations as part of a novel experimental design that used infant rhesus monkeys and a set of inanimate surrogate mothers. Not only did he propose a new social paradigm for family life, the role of mothers and fathers, and what it meant to be a loving parent in the process, Harlow distinguished himself as one of the most controversial experimental researchers in the history of psychology. The present paper explores the context of Harlow’s academic career and the zeitgeists that marked his time while also providing an in-depth analysis of his landmark 1958 study, how his work has been interpreted for over a half-century, and factors contributing to his overall legacy.

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Section: The Predominant Beliefs Of the Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Harlow’s Famous Monkey Study: The Historical and Contemporary Significance of the Nature of Love

Radetzki¹

2018

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Affections and conventions.

Cited by 1 publication

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Harlow’s Famous Monkey Study: The Historical and Contemporary Significance of the Nature of Love

Harlow’s Famous Monkey Study: The Historical and Contemporary Significance of the Nature of Love

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