Monday 27 April 2009
Thursday 23 April 2009
Hell is for children
Tuesday 21 April 2009
Thursday 16 April 2009
Lean on me
Tuesday 14 April 2009
Sunday 12 April 2009
Thursday 9 April 2009
The nature of love
In 1957 Harry Harlow devised an experiment designed to take a pop at psychoanalytic drive theories of bonding ("Mummy gratifies my hunger. I love Mummy"). He wrote up his findings in a paper bearing the tongue-in-cheek title The Nature of Love.
The infant monkeys showed a clear preference for the cuddly mothers, clinging to these surrogates for 18 hours a day (as they would to a real mother) even though they were fed exclusively from the wire mother and even ‘punished’ with sudden blasts of compressed air as they clung to the cloth stand-ins.