While we take it as just a fact of life today, before the 1950s and 1960s, many experts on child development treated ...

In the 1950s, the American psychologist Harry Harlow provided a stark demonstration of the importance of a mother's touch. He ...

Harry Harlow received his BA and PhD (1930) in psychology from Stanford University and immediately joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin. Within a year, he had established the ...

“Before I had a baby, I was good at things,” Reddy writes in her introduction, beguilingly called “Love Is a Wondrous State,” a line she nabs from psychologist Harry Harlow. Harlow was one ...

Affection in infants was long thought to be generated by the satisfactions of feeding. Studies of young rhesus monkeys now indicate that love derives mainly from close bodily contact ...