Psychologists
Harry Harlow
Also Known As Born Harry Frederick Israel; changed his surname to Harlow after his 1930 PhD, reportedly at Lewis Terman's prompting out of concern over antisemitic bias against a Jewish-sounding surname.
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Harry Harlow (1905-1981) was an American comparative and experimental psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose rhesus monkey experiments on maternal separation and social isolation, beginning in the 1950s, demonstrated that contact comfort rather than mere feeding was central to infant attachment, directly challenging behaviorist orthodoxy. His later, more severe isolation work became one of the most ethically criticized bodies of research in 20th-century psychology.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDemonstrated through rhesus monkey experiments that contact comfort, not feeding, is central to infant attachment. 1 Notable WorkThe Nature of Love, address to the American Psychological Association (1958) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys
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Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
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Harlow first reported the results of these experiments in The Nature of Love, the title of his address to the sixty-sixth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
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After receiving a PhD in 1930, he changed his name from Israel to Harlow.
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He worked with the primates at Henry Vilas Zoo, where he developed the Wisconsin General Test Apparatus (WGTA) to study learning, cognition, and memory.
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