Harry Harlow Monkey Experiment Contact Comfort

[sHAd0W11591]

This is sick,just morbid, how can you justify this disgusting shit!

fucking scientist.

[TheMysticPeak]

JOE ROGAN SENT ME HERE LOL

[RafCityTV]

rogan?

[MrAtianaB]

IDIOT MAMMAL

[babajohnable]

I'm sure that if Harlow had been born 25 years earlier in Germany, he'd have been quite happy to work under Dr. Mengele.

[wendyandmarv]

I used to perform contact comfort experiments on monkeys, then I took an arrow to the knee

[chenyenko]

Harry Harlow is the most psychotic individual in this video. How are you getting on down there Harry. Not too hot for you I hope.

[julietspaghetti]

he is a psychopath

[paintballkid454]

Hooray for scientific animal abuse!

[kostov9]

Maybe it's just me, but all those old time scientists look cold.

[beyapanda]

i'm an ab psychology major and this is just amazing. psychology is really awesome! it's really interesting :) just downloaded this video for my report!

[iloveoreos15]

So adorable.

[piratentim]

VEry intresting... :)

[chuyorey]

Harry Harlow son of a bitch i hope u burn in hell & sufering more than the monkeys!!!

[snarysorous]

@chuyorey it is unfair for the monkey BUT its an important scientific experiment, animal testing with chemicals is more damaging to an animal yanooo :/

[chuyorey]

@snarysorous we "humans" always believe that only we got soul & feelings.. if it is not so damaged the monkey then ask him to put their children, i still bilieve than psycological damage are moore heavy... think only being in his place... u don't kno what him make to animals....

[Namewithnoname]

I feel really sorry for those monkeys. They grew up unable bonding with other monkeys and ended up being bullied by their own species :(

[MEGAoneARMEDbandit]

If only that was a human baby clinging to lifeless objects thinking theyre his mother, this video wouldve been spilling with outrage. But no, we are fucking hypocrites. Animal life is no life at all.

[marcoj25]

@MEGAoneARMEDbandit honestly, you would rather have experiments done with human babies?

[MEGAoneARMEDbandit]

@marcoj25 i would rather have experiments done on robotic babies.

[marcoj25]

@MEGAoneARMEDbandit i hope that was a joke. a failed joke..

[MEGAoneARMEDbandit]

@marcoj25 the joke's on you if even after living in the 21st century you dont know bout anthropomorphic experiments. Japan, Germany, France, UK, India are far ahead of the world in terms of these experiments. Animal and human body conditions are simulated in artificial conditions and experimented on. You seriously thought that was a joke?! Shame on you.

[CornerTalker]

and yet our society is telling us that we will receive fulfillment by work and by accumulating material goods (the wire mother with milk) and tells us that personal attachments are secondary...

[thepalmetto]

Cruelty to animals? You people are fanatical. I'll bet most of you didn't know that alot of our medical journals and what is taught in medical school comes directly from Nazi scientist experiments on Jews and Gypsies. Everything comes at a cost. You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette. How what he did in this video is torture is beyond me. You animal fanatics are notorious for blowing shit out of proportion.

[bobzeda]

@thepalmetto

Now that just isn't true. The Nazi's did ridiculous experiments on people. They had no scientific validity. I have read some of the "studies" that were just silly. It was just a form a Nazi torture by "doctors."

The Harlow experiments, while cruel, actually did have some very valid research results that show you could rehabilitate a damage mind by socializing it with younger animals. This works with humans as well. They do rehabilitate this animal.

[thepalmetto]

@bobzeda How can you be so sure the experiments had no scientific validity? Perhaps the studies you found were from a one-sided, biased source. While I agree that the experimentation was cruel and inhumane, it's no different than Burke and Hare's contributions in the 1800's. Most of what we know of anatomy was gained through body snatching and murder. The major difference is the Nazis had far more bodies at their disposal. Where do you think America's greatest scientists came from? Germany...

[bobzeda]

@thepalmetto

The Nazi's?? lol...Look up Dr. Mengele's twin 'studies.' Ridiculous.He used no valid scientific procedure nor achieve any results. Just sick torture. He did not even use controls or keep valid notes.

The monkey studies produce excellent results using controls. He creates a valid theory through accurate methods.Everything Dr. Harlow has done is reproducible and applicable to humans. It is valid research, although I believe he carried it on too many years. I feel for the monkeys.

[afrey82]

@bobzeda While this monkey may have been rehabilitated, look up the 'pit of despair' that Harlow used to study depression in monkeys that had already bonded with their mothers. They were not.

[bobzeda]

@afrey82

Yes, I already knew about this. Many or Harlow's own colleagues view keeping monkey further only became abuse. I do think Harlow's studies are an important part of the study of psychology and socialization. Harlow didn't need to keep the monkeys isolated after the first or second studies. We already know the reactions to isolation. It became cruel after that. But I think that in this study the end did justify the means. I do think, however, that Harlow did eventually go too far.

[viruskillerism]

i love this video and the doctor is kind and NOT mean and cruel like athor animal experiment docters !!!!

[Mewsie]

oh dear, one day we'll look back on this and liken it to babies playing with building blocks. Self enquiry alone could provide the answers these scientists are fumbling around for. Instead, the only question raised here is, what kind of beings are we that we could create such cold cruelties on beings that would never dream up such tortures even if their lives depended on it. The results of these experiments is that we're a species that is blind and alienated from our own selves.

[lunabunny91]

While Harlow provided psychological insight he's still a pile of steaming poo for doing this experiment, apparently his conscience was lacking...ironic isn't it? :(

[jonahfox]

Harry Harlow deserved the death penalty.

[mtbikerak]

Like the noises the monkey makes

[LusciousApril]

Awww he's sucking his thumb.

[sukiesoya]

this man was as cruel as hitler, a pervert and a sadist

[NationEarth100]

Han er ikke fint , så ikke godt. Stakasj appikutt, kan du ikke se hvordan ikke stemmer det er? Nei, ikke ikke ikke ikke fint

[KiaraEllen5]

HARLOW IS AN ASS AND DESERVES TO GO TO HELL.......Poor monkey :(

[kimber202]

This is evidence of how sick humans are to do this to an animal. For what??? I can't believe we think it is ok to do this to animals. Cruel is an understatement. The revenge will be finding out their are aliens that ARE abducting humans for similar experiments. We think we are the most intelligent animal, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ekto1888]

@kimber202 we don't think its acceptable no one would get away with this any more to protect animals from psychologists who don't like animals

[junkintrunk55]

They die horribly in the wild all the time. I have seen a baboon throw her baby at a predator to escape. Some times the mama drags the baby to death. When a new leader takes over, he kills all the babies so the females go in heat and mate with him. If food is scarce, they leave the baby, just walk away from it, and breed again!

Don't put human traits on these things, it doesn't fit.

[noratmedicine]

@junkintrunk55 i think that you have been creative and wishful in your interpretation of the monkeys behaviour as it contradicts normal maternal instincts and demonstrated behaviour

[efzakreski]

lilium11 this was very significant research. In the 1950's, many psychologists believed that infants become emotionally attached to their mothers purely because she supplies food. Harlow's research was important because it suggested that emotional attachment requires more than just supplying food, it necessitates a feeling of security.

[noratmedicine]

@efzakreski The millions of humans who coudl eb studied would represent valid epidemilogical study which is directly relevant to humans. no need to experiment, human information is already available as it was then

[efzakreski]

@noratmedicine

It would be unethical to conduct an experiment of this nature on human infants. As is generally the case, the utility of epidemiological data is localized to instigating research questions. John Bowlby's study of orphanages was pivotal in suggesting that the role of a caregiver extends beyond the delivery of nutrients to include the provision of warmth, affection and security. Since it was based on epidemiological data, Bowlby's initial research was descriptive and thus lacked

[noratmedicine]

@efzakreski As i said 'no need to experiment'. There are millions of humans to observe. this gives information which is valid for humans and in the real world. The size and randomness of human studies mean that variables are eliminated. there are humans who have been deprived of affection and every other thing a human needs to varying degrees and no doubt consistencies could be found across cultures and races, thsi is valid information and no human experiment is needed

[efzakreski]

@noratmedicine The distinction between descriptive and experimental research is a basic principle in scientific research. Descriptive or observational research such as case studies or epidemiology is correlational and thus cannot imply causation. Evidence that one variable causes an another is collected in experimental settings where one can control for confounding variables, while manipulating and measuring relevant variables. It is impossible to control variables in naturalistic settings.

[noratmedicine]

@efzakreski well conducted epidemiological studies will always give information more accurate for humans (or species of interest). While you can control variables in animal experiments species difference remains an impassable barrier. they will always remain a matter of hindsight and those which turn out to be correct will be referred too but this is of little use. if people at oen time thought kids only liked their mums for food they were fools

[efzakreski]

@noratmedicine ... lacked explanatory power. Causal linkages can be established with confidence in laboratory experiments where variables are controlled precisely. Descriptive research is insufficient in establishing causation, thus Bowlby's work and other epidemioglogical data formed an incomplete argument. Harry Harlow supplied confidence to previous work by conducting an experiment.

Naturally, it would be unethical to conduct an experiment on human subjects using Harlow's paradigm.

[marfalove]

He just wants some security and protection and something warm to hold him

[lilium11]

poor little monkey, how cruel scientists can be! You could have reached the same conclusions by observing monkeys in their own environment!

[lilium11]

poor little monkey, how cruel scientist can be!

[pandaislander29]

i don't know who's saying the baby monkey is horny but LISTEN UP EVERYONE.

i'm just a high school student taking AP Psychology and even I know he's trying to comfort himself. If you're looking for some kind of underlying sexual message/act, please take you ignorant mind somewhere else.

[rdatlasmbrd]

dude AP psychology is still high school learning. there are different levels of comfort dumbass. and sexual massaging is one of them. NOW YOU TAKE YOUR DUMBASS OUT OF HERE!

[pandaislander29]

@rdatlasmbrd actually no. you're the dumbass here because my school's AP Psychology is COLLEGE LEVEL. If you had thought about the fact that maybe some schools are more advanced than others, then you wouldn't have appeared twice as ignorant. Furthur more, I doubt the baby monkey has developed the sexual urges and drives that the adults have. Or did you fail to see that it was a BABY monkey?

[5Irishsun30]

@pandaislander29 This experiment will actually relate to children. If you set a child in a crib and leave them alone. They will rock back and forth to comfort them selves.

[pandaislander29]

@5Irishsun30 I'm aware of that, but was just saying that baby monkeys [and humans] don't have sexual urges and drives like adults do.

[JessicaUzumaki]

@pandaislander29 Are you seriously taking highschool psycology then? You know the sexual part is Freud's theory, right?

[pandaislander29]

@JessicaUzumaki I was actually in high school [this stream started last year, my junior year], but taking college level psychology. Yes, I do know that that's Freud's theory, but as I recollect, it didn't apply to babies. I'm pretty sure it applied to middle old children [around 7-8] through especially to adulthood, but there was no mention in my class [when speaking of Freud or anyone else] about babies of any kind having sexual urges. That was my main point: that babies do not get horny.

[MadaraXIII]

Either way this prove how necessary love is in life and without it, the effects are devastating.

[xXKittyxCat]

that monkey is so cute!

[kingcrimson234]

harlow's definition of love is quite incorrect and misleading. sure, of course a feeling of security plays a part, but it's much much more than that.

[danieljonathanmartin]

@kingcrimson234

Yes that is true, although the experiment was constructed as a reply and to disprove an earlier theory by freud. I dont think it was meant to be all encompassing.....

[guitargoddessringo]

It hurts my soul to see it but at the same time it was necessary :(

Comfort is a crazy thing..

[dalekdalekdalek]

Was that monkey humping the fake mother!?! It looked like it!

[Vinco]

he's rocking his upper body back and forth. apparently it's stereotypy. he's scared and lonely, and true to the experiment, it meant that he needs sensory stimulation, which in so many words means he needs a mother. he's not horny.

[UhClaire]

@Vinco It's called Affectionless Psychopathy, it happens when a baby doesn't have a primary care giver to love them, so it couldn't form a secure attachment. Anyway, that's basically what you said, but yeah. The Monkeys grew up to be severely retarded because of the lack of a mother.

[mmanson123]

@dalekdalekdalek No! This is not about sex! He's just a small baby monkey! He needs comfort and someone to hold him, that's why he's rocking back and forth. NOT humping by ROCKING.

[marfalove]

@dalekdalekdalek Dear god the baby monkey just wants protection and comfort. Just like a human baby, baby monkeys want warmth and a mother.

[SarahMic90]

I think although this experiment is fundamental, I think it has too many variables - we can see that even the face of the cloth mother more closely resembles a monkey, so perhaps that is part of the reason the monkey attaches itself more readily to it.

Also this may be contraversial but this kind of research on monkeys needs to be done - how else can we understand attachment?

[beenthere888]

i think its also controversial but you could say that other experiments like watson and little albert which was experimenting classical conditioning.. oh yeah? well how else can we understand classical conditioning?

[SarahMic90]

There are wlays going to be people who are against it and I can uderstand their reasons but the principle objecive is to help humanity.

[deby1392]

@SarahMic90 the monkey has never seen its real mother

[SarahMic90]

I know, but it doesn't know any better. Ignorance can be bliss.

[UDIETHATWAY]

The monkey is just a baby - the cloth monkey is cozy and warm whereas the wire monkey is hard, cold and scratchy. He goes to feed on the wire monkey....but doesn't want to stay on it because it's probably uncomfortable...I don't think you have to be a genius to figure that out.

[ledzepsarah]

@UDIETHATWAY It has nothing to do with the wire monkey being too cold/scratchy! Comfort on the cloth mother deactivates the fear system, allowing the monkey to feel secure. Thus it would encourage continual exploration of it's environment. This provides evidence that it is not hunger or biological need fulfillment that disengages anxiety, but comfort and security a secure base provides.

[Ganstaaaaaaa]

i think this experiment really helped psychologists out, but i still think it is soo mean.

aw the monkey was sucking its thumb!

[kalil0v3]

You have to remember that views of animal rights have changed.

[McCharli]

You're all idiots. He is a great scientist and we have learned a hell of a lot from his work. This needs to be done on humans next lol

[heechae10]

Mc Charli, we have learned a "hell" a lot from his work. Yes, but he was not a great scientist.

[MaskofHexadecimal]

Agreed. There was a lot learned from these experiments, but I don;t beleive the end justified the means. Harlow was clearly a nasty piece of work.

Ironically though, it was these twisted experiments that give a scientific basis for claiming that animals like monkeys are sentient and self-aware, driven by emotion rather than instinct....sad really that people have to torture creatures before they realize a capacity for suffering.

[tottaxw312]

Yeah! Why don't you donate your newborns for a few months? lol

[noratmedicine]

@McCharli Are you seriously saying that we didnt know that humans needed affection without monkey expeeiments. vivisectors would be just about the only people who did not know this. If they duped the government into believing it then that says something about govt not about what was already well known

[platermanone]

@McCharli Put your hand up Mr. Nonchalant.

[platermanone]

@McCharli ''We learn'' over torture? What if it was your son as it was another animals? But it's not the same? Rather not think about it? Scared? I guess you're nonchalant about the Nazi experiments too? Or are you loaded with anthropocentrism? King idiot. lol

[actsoftheunspeakable]

@McCharli i agree

[samml1]

Hello Mr. Harlow J. Mengele!

[unnecessaryfuss]

Rot in hell, Harlow, you twisted son of a bitch!

[ledzepsarah]

@unnecessaryfuss Do you have a background in developmental psychology? Or are you just uneducated in how to make logical deductions? It seems both....

[cudmachine]

WHAT A FUCKING MONSTER!!!

[lebencinas]

This video contains VIRUS (.exe)

[ROBOFRANCE2029]

what?

[banelis]

poor thing :(

[bubbagyro]

I love this video!

[kimber202]

@bubbagyro You love watching an animal in such distress?? I wonder what type of person you are??????