1. The invention of Harry Harlow -- 2. Untouched by human hands -- 3. The alpha male -- 4. The curiosity box -- 5. The nature of love -- 6. The perfect mother -- 7. Chains of love -- 8. The baby in ...

A young rhesus monkey clings to a surrogate mother in a lab experiment. Love is vital for healthy human development. While we take it as just a fact of life today, before the 1950s and 1960s, many ...

Having recently prepped a developmental psychology course that I hadn’t taught since graduate school, I have become reintroduced to this subfield of psychology. As I was reacquainting myself with the ...

TINY infant monkeys clinging desperately to crude artificial “cloth-mothers” seems a gratuitously brutal way of showing the importance of the mother-offspring bond in primates. I first came across ...

In this video, dancers move about a set designed by Mike Kelley, interacting and silently commenting on various choreographies: Martha Graham’s “mythological” dances, gestures derived from the ...