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It was mentioned as a famous article by Harry Harlow that focused on infant monkeys and their preference for comfort over basic needs, suggesting a primal instinct for love and tenderness.
Harry Harlow was the mastermind behind these very creative experiments on primates like monkeys.
— Episode: 203. Do You Need a Hug?
Episode: 203. Do You Need a Hug?
It was mentioned as a famous article by Harry Harlow that focused on infant monkeys and their preference for comfort over basic needs, suggesting a primal instinct for love and tenderness.
Harry Harlow was the mastermind behind these very creative experiments on primates like monkeys.
Now I have to say that in present day harry harlow might have been canceled because He was really interested in the nature of love and actually his most famous article is called the nature of love And it's not a study of people. It's a study of infant monkeys.
Okay, so what harry harlow did was he raised these infant monkeys in Rooms in isolation of their moms.
And then there was another mom who had nothing to give you in terms of nutrition But was covered with like soft terry cloth And the question was when you observe these infant monkeys, what do they do?
Well, indeed the monkeys go to the wire mom that has the milk, you know They go and like they feed and then they go right back to the comforting mom who has nothing to give you other Their soft quote-unquote embrace and what harry harlow concluded was that we don't just need our basic needs to be met. There is a primitive Instinct for love. We want that tenderness and now we know that it's elemental