Mother Love

Duration: 0:26:00

Year Published: 1945

Creator: Carousel Films

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Records the experiments of Dr. Harry Harlow of the University of Wisconsin in which he uses two new-born rhesus monkeys to study the infant-mother relationship. He created two substitute mothers, one of wire and one of cloth, and tested the monkeys' reaction to them in different situations. He demonstrated through these experiments that the single most important factor in an infant's love for its mother is that of body contact--holding and nestling--and that deprivation of this can cause deep emotional disturbances, even death. , Tests the reactions of rhesus monkeys to a variety of unusual and inanimate mother substitutes in order to find the key to the bond between mother and chld and understand the effects of denial of maternal love. The experiments demonstrate that the single most important factor is body contact and further concludes that deprivation of this can cause deep emotional disturbances, even death.

Complete Record: , Records the experiments of Dr. Harry Harlow of the University of Wisconsin in which he uses two newborn rhesus monkeys to study the infant-mother relationship. He demonstrates that the single most important factor is body contact. Deprivation can cause deep emotional disturbances, even death. , . Records the experiments of Dr. Harry Harlow of the University of Wisconsin in which he uses two new-born rhesus monkeys to study the infant-mother relationship. He created two substitute mothers, one of wire and one of cloth, and tested the monkey's reaction to them in different situations. He demonstrates through these experiments that the single most important factor in an infant's love for its mother is that of body contact--holding and nestling--and that deprivation of this can cause deep emotional disturbances, even death., , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.