Title:Chapter 6: Monkey Love
Reference:
Slater, Lauren. Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century. W.W. Norton & Company: 2008.
Summary:
This chapter was about Harry Haslow's experiments with love. For the experiments, he used baby rhesus monkeys. In his first experiment, he placed some monkeys in an area with 2 surrogate mothers. One was made of cardboard, and covered in cloth, but had no milk to drink. The other was made out of wire, and had milk for the monkeys. What he observed was that the baby monkeys would cling to the cloth mother, when they got hungary, go to the wire mother until they were full, then return. Haslow discusses how this relates that touch is more important than just getting food to love.
Discussion:
I thought that this was an interesting chapter. It was interesting to see that many people thought what he was doing as animal cruelty. This brings up the question, do the ends justify the means?
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