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In a 2011 Psychology Today post called "What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Human Behavior," Michael Michalko described an experiment involving five monkeys, a ladder, and a banana.
Harry Harlow’s most famous experiments involved isolating an infant rhesus monkey until it was socially and emotionally devastated. Less well-known is the experiment in which he revived them ...
Health Psychology Mental Health These 1950s experiments showed us the trauma of parent-child separation. Now experts say they’re too unethical to repeat—even on monkeys.
HE MAKES A STUDY OF MONKEY TRICKS; Harvard Exponent of Animal Psychology to Spend Summer Among Zoo Simians. TO LIVE IN THEIR QUARTERS Special Cage to be Fitted Up for the Study of Their Imitative ...
First comes fire, followed by the monkey. The baby on the floor next to the unsmiling woman. The burning newspaper just beyond the baby’s grasp. The tiny monkey on a leash, led by the man in the ...
In experiments, monkeys make some ‘financial’ decisions which are remarkably similar to those made by humans. This story is from Monkey Money, an episode of The Big Idea on BBC World Service ...
The theory-of-mind experiment is designed to test whether the monkeys, who obsessively guard their own food, assume that people do the same. If so, Santos reasons, they should prefer to steal from ...
In a 2011 Psychology Today post called "What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Human Behavior," Michael Michalko described an experiment involving five monkeys, a ladder, and a banana.