Harlow attachment

• 2 wire mother surrogates, 1 wrapped in soft cloth and the other a wire mother. 8 motherless rhesus monkeys, 165 days.
• measured the amount of time they spent at each mother.
• Findings were more time was spent at the cloth mother even if food was at the wire. Ran to mother at times of high stress.
• Motherless monkeys found to be sexually and socially abnormal with other monkeys, but could recover with spending more time with monkey peers.
• FINDINGS - drive to seek comfort
• AO3 - real life application. Howe - found that the study helped social workers understand risk factors used in care of captive wild monkeys in zoo
• AO3 - ethical issues, emotional separation from biological mothers
• AO3 - cofounding variables, different heads on mothers, possible one was more attractive.
• AO3 - animal studies, can't be generalised to humans.