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Harry Harlow

1905 - 1981

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Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development. He conducted most of his research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow worked with him for a short period of time. Harlow's experiments were ethically controversial; they included creating inanimate wire and wood surrogate "mothers" for the rhesus infants. Each infant became attached to its particular mother, recognizing its unique face. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Harlow is the 164th most popular psychologist (down from 145th in 2019), the 4,429th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,115th in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Harry Harlow ranks 164 out of 235. Before him are Victor Skumin, Aleksei N. Leontiev, James J. Gibson, Stanley Schachter, Walter Mischel, and Brenda Milner. After him are Arnold Gesell, Henri Nouwen, Emma Eckstein, Rensis Likert, Dimitri Uznadze, and Reuven Feuerstein.

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Among people born in 1905, Harry Harlow ranks 157. Before him are Mariya Oktyabrskaya, Edwin H. Colbert, Zdeněk Burian, Mildred Natwick, Joan Coromines, and Pierre Brasseur. After him are Étienne Mattler, Sanford Meisner, Fumiko Enchi, Harold Arlen, Rózsa Péter, and Hans Freudenthal. Among people deceased in 1981, Harry Harlow ranks 113. Before him are Mica Todorović, Hermann Esser, Zdeněk Burian, Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, Roman Rudenko, and Jaime Roldós Aguilera. After him are Mostafa Chamran, Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, Chief Dan George, Rensis Likert, D. R. Bendre, and Mario Camerini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Harlow ranks 4,429 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Carpenter (1946), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Deke Slayton (1924), Gary Peters (1958), William Zabka (1965), and Daron Malakian (1975). After him are Robert Mulligan (1925), Arnold Gesell (1880), David Alan Grier (1956), Anthony Davis (1993), Stephenie Meyer (1973), and Robert Walker (1940).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Harry Harlow ranks 55. Before him are George Kelly (1905), David Ausubel (1918), Arthur Janov (1924), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), James J. Gibson (1904), and Stanley Schachter (1922). After him are Arnold Gesell (1880), Rensis Likert (1903), James Hillman (1926), Henry Murray (1893), Benjamin Libet (1916), and Julian Rotter (1916).

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