Scaring a monkey: another experiment by Harlow
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I think it works the same way with Teatards and ALEC/AFP "conservative" talk radio...
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Harlow was a fucking asshole! What a fucking prick!
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Replace the monkey with a human and have the scary robot to be "satan" and the fake mother monkey to be a fake book called the bible.
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what a fucking nut job.
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Cna't believe that "that looks DIABOLICAL" didn't make it as a top comment!
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@JonestownHangover This happened before the African-American civil rights movement. You can still ask some older people today what their predisposition on black people is, and if they're cruel and traditional enough, they'll tell you something along the lines of what I said.
But how did you know I was a hipster pothead :(
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They weren't even considered human? ROFL! More sensationalist lies coming from these hipster potheads.
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You people don't realize what time period this experiment was done in. Back then, colored people weren't even considered "human." Would you be that angered if the experiment was performed on a lab rat or an insect? I think not, but surely they're just as much alive as you and me. Just because there were less limits on what was considered appropriate doesn't mean they weren't doing it for a good cause.
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@includao Very well put. Most do not understand how all of these experiments can relate to young children and their effect on growing up.
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You guys might think this experiment wasn't bad but I've heard the other experiments Harlow has done have been really cruel.
@mmnabii The point is that before these experiments where conducted psychologists believed that positive affection shown to children was detrimental to their development. Harry Harlow was considered a fool for suggesting otherwise. This was in the 1950's when animal experimentation was generally seen as acceptable, and without such experimentation Harlow's theory (and what is now viewed as common sense) would have not been deemed credible.
99vov 1 year ago 8
Poor Monkey. I want to reasure it and cuddle it. I bet Harlow was one heck of a Mama's boy himself. I'd like to chase him around with a machine gun and chart down his reaction.
PinkPunkyKat 1 year ago 3