In the 1950’s and 1960’s, a psychologist named Harry Harlow did unethical studies on social development in primates. Harlow et al. took newborn rhesus macaques away from their mothers and placed them with “wire mothers” (monkey shaped things that were featureless and made out of wire) or “cloth mothers” (monkey-shaped things that had faces and bodies covered with a soft, warm cloth).
In the 1950’s and 1960’s, a psychologist named Harry Harlow did unethical studies on social development in primates....