Mothers, machines, and morals: Harry Harlow's work on primate love from lab to legend

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 193-218

  Vicedo, Marga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LOVE; MACACA; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LOVE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOLOGY, COMPARATIVE; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651033913     PISSN: 00225061     EISSN: 15206696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20378     Document Type: Article

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