Harry Harlow
Harry Harlow was a psychologist and the author of the 1958 paper The nature of love.
Who they are
Harry Harlow was a psychologist and the author of the 1958 paper The nature of love. On this site the name is tied to Contact Comfort, Attachment Theory.
Key papers
Harlow, H. F. (1958). The nature of love. American Psychologist, 13(12), 673-685.
Key ideas
Contact Comfort: Harlow's term for the comfort an infant gets from soft bodily contact, which he found outweighed feeding as a source of affection in infant monkeys.
Attachment Theory: The claim that a human infant is built to keep a responsive adult nearby, because an infant that does so survives better, and that the bond formed shapes how the person relates later.
Sources
- Harlow, H. F. (1958). The nature of love. American Psychologist, 13(12), 673-685.