Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
4-25-2025
Keywords
attachment, comfort, developmental psychology, Harold Harlow, social attachment
Disciplines
Developmental Psychology
Abstract
In Harold Harlow’s 1958 address of the American Psychological Association, he hoped to tackle a concept he felt was too often avoided by the psychologists of his time, the nature of love. His work on the behavior of macaques when reared without their mothers makes a compelling argument about the limits of viewing psychology (and by extension development) as simply the reduction of “primary drives” like hunger, thirst and avoidance of pain.
Recommended Citation
Santo, Jonathan B., "Harry Harlow’s Nature of Love (1958)" (2025). Essays in Developmental Psychology. 81.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/edp/81