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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by attachment studies

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otherwise known as experiments on the best way to use paper clips do not [Man in lab setting paperclips on fire]

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attempt this at home here's today's question Harlow used

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which species for his attachment studies and here the potential anxieties like

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Chinese New Year there Harlow studies were conducted in a series of tests

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throughout the 1950s and 60s he knew that babies immediately bond [A baby in elf costume]

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with their mothers but he wanted to know exactly what these mechanisms were so

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what he did what most scientists do he laughs maniacally like that my questions [Scientist laughing]

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well he did what evil and decent

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scientists do he experimented Harlow created an environment where he could [Babies in a dark room]

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compare groups of babies that were raised in isolation with groups the

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babies raised with surrogate mothers if you're thinking separating babies from

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their mothers that sounds pretty cruel well that's because it is pretty cruel

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seriously no one would ever agree to that at least no humans oh we have the

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privilege of consenting to be experimented on so we can cross out E

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anyhow Harlow concluded in his heartless experiment that for a baby to develop [Harlow standing in lab with babies]

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normally they must have some interaction with an object to which they can clean

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during the first month of life clinging it turns out is a natural [Pig appears]

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response for young animal to alleviate stress and fear

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so there's your excuse for when your significant other tells you you're being [Man and woman walking along the beach]

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too needy anyways what animal did Harlow end up using well we can forget pigs and

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dogs those are hardly ever used in scientific experiments and stuff we love

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Fido and babe but way too much for that stuff anyway and well it makes more

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sense to use animals that are more like human biologically genetically [Monkey appear in a tree]

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behaviorally structurally etc rat believe it or not are pretty human-like

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but have you ever seen a rat clinging to its mother no which means that species

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hardly used for his attachment Studies was none other men answered B monkey we

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bet PETA is still right now angry letters to Harlow's grave about that one [Graveyard appears]

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