Andrew Westoll Quote
Harlow's results showed that a mother's reassuring gentle touch —what Harlow called contact comfort—is a more important factor in an infant's world than food. The journalist Deborah Blum, in her excellent biography of Harlow, Love at Goon Park, summarizes his initial findings: that for a baby primate, food is sustenance but a good hug is life itself.
Andrew Westoll
Harlow's results showed that a mother's reassuring gentle touch —what Harlow called contact comfort—is a more important factor in an infant's world than food. The journalist Deborah Blum, in her excellent biography of Harlow, Love at Goon Park, summarizes his initial findings: that for a baby primate, food is sustenance but a good hug is life itself.