In the first place I have an enormous regard for common sen… - Harry Harlow

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In the first place I have an enormous regard for common sense. Any time we discover some great thing and it contradicts common sense, we better go back to the laboratory and check it.

Harry Harlow

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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 in social and cognitive development.

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Birth Name: Harry Frederick Harlow

Alternative Names: Harry F. Harlow • H. F. Harlow

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