Contact comfort is a variable of overwhelming importance in the development of affectional responses, whereas lactation is a variable of negligible importance.

Harry Harlow

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Harry Harlow

U.S. psychologist (1905-81). His 1958 surrogate-mother work showed infant monkeys prefer contact comfort to feeding, grounding Bowlby's attachment theory. Later isolation studies helped spark U.S. animal liberation.

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