caption doctoral_advisor death_date death_place birth_place influences nationality field birth_date titles doctoral_students prizes article_title name alma_mater
harry harlow lewis terman 6 december 1981 tucson , arizona , u.s. fairfield , iowa , u.s. lewis terman american psychology 31 october 1905 president scientific advisory panel , the american psychological association consultant to army john bowlby ; mary ainsworth national from american psychological foundation -lrb- 1973 -rrb- howard crosby warren medal medal -lrb- 1956 -rrb- of science -lrb- 1967 -rrb- gold medal harry harlow
 harry harlow reed college , stanford university
harry harlow

harry frederick harlow -lrb- october 31 , 1905 -- december 6 , 1981 -rrb- 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 in 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 controversial ; they included cultivating infant monkeys in isolation chambers for up to 24 months , from which they emerged intensely disturbed .
some researchers cite the experiments as a factor in the rise of the animal liberation movement in the united states .
a `` review of general psychology '' survey , published in 2002 , ranked harlow as the 26th most cited psychologist of the 20th century .
