"Dr. Mary's Monkey"

[Jan Klimkowski]

For the record, here's a source for Harry Harlow's visible high level military connections:

Thus, by the time he started to study love in the mid 1950s, Harlow already had considerable
experience with monkeys and fame. He had established himself as a leading comparative
psychologist. From 1950 to 1952, he was the Army's Chief Psychologist and he helped to
create the Human Resources Research Office, a major military social science research center
in Washington, D.C. Besides his work on learning and motivation on monkeys, he had also
done extensive work on the cortical localization of intellectual functions and on radiation
effects. In 1951 he became the editor of the major journal in comparative psychology, the
Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. The same year he was elected a member
of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1958 he became president of the American
Psychological Association. In his presidential speech he presented his new research on mother
love, research that would turn him into one of the most famous and influential psychologists
of the twentieth century.

MOTHERS, MACHINES, AND MORALS: HARRY HARLOW'S WORK
ON PRIMATE LOVE FROM LAB TO LEGEND
MARGA VICEDO
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 45(3), 193218 Summer 2009
Published online in Wiley Interscience (http://www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/jhbs.20378