Figure 7.3 | Harlow’s Motherless Monkeys and Surrogate Mothers | In Harry Harlow’s research on the role of feeding in the attachment process, he found that contact comfort, rather than feeding, was the most important factor in an infant monkey’s attachment. The infant monkeys spent most of their time on the terry cloth surrogate mother regardless of whether she provided their nourishment or not. The infant monkey would often even cling to the cloth monkey while feeding from the wire mother.
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