http://mindhacks.com/2009/11/24/harlows-pit-of-despair/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/11/24/harlows-pit-of-despair/#comment-5192 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:51:37 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/harlows-pit-of-despair/#comment-5192 Now I see there is a lab in Wisconsin (I think) with a colony of macaques, named after this crazed sadist. What will we have next? The Dr. Mengele Children’s Hospital?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/11/24/harlows-pit-of-despair/#comment-5191 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:14:47 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/harlows-pit-of-despair/#comment-5191 “The maternal deprivation studies are widely cited but they really told us little except the obvious fact that early relationships are important.”
Was this obvious at the time?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/11/24/harlows-pit-of-despair/#comment-5190 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:01:34 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/harlows-pit-of-despair/#comment-5190 Oh, and Martin Seligman, of course

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/11/24/harlows-pit-of-despair/#comment-5189 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:38:40 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/harlows-pit-of-despair/#comment-5189 I shall feel compelled to read the play, but I hate the thought of anyone sparing a thought for this sadistic bugger. If he was such a monster as a child, I’m not surprised he was estranged from his mother – like the appalling Hubel & Wiesel, Harlow should be retrospectively stripped of whatever academic qualifications he achieved.

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