Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

American Psychological Association (APA), attachment, avoidance of pain, behavior, comfort, developmental psychology, Harold Harlow, hunger, love, macaques, mothers, primary drives, psychologists, psychology, social attachment, thirst, 1958 address

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.

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