Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection.DEBORAH BLUM Deborah Blum (born October 19 1954) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. As a science writer for the Sacramento Bee, Blum (rhymes with gum In the mid-1960s, many psychologists frowned on affectionate relationships between parents and children, believing that excessive parental attention breeds needy and demanding offspring. In vogue Vogue leading fashion magazine in France and America. [Fr. and Amer. Culture: Misc.] See : Fashion at the time was the Freudian view that the mother-child bond is driven exclusively by a baby's need for food. Harry Frederick Harlow challenged that notion and explored the role of love in human relationships. Today, many people remember him disdainfully dis·dain·ful adj. Expressive of disdain; scornful and contemptuous. See Synonyms at proud. dis·dain  ful·ly adv. for his cruel primate primate, member of the mammalian order Primates, which includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians, or lower primates. The group can be traced to the late Cretaceous period, where members were forest dwellers. experiments that supported his point of view. Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Blum explores Harlow's legacy and recalls how this man with a sometimes abrasive abrasive, material used to grind, smooth, cut, or polish another substance. Natural abrasives include sand, pumice, corundum, and ground quartz. Carborundum (silicon carbide) and alumina (aluminum oxide) are important synthetically produced abrasives. personality introduced the concept of love as a vital component of what it is to be human. Blum details how Harlow's studies revealed the consequences of abusive relationships and how love and affection can be directly linked to elevated intelligence. Oddly, Harlow didn't practice his own philosophy. Blum also explores Harlow's strained relationships with his own children. Perseus Pubng, 2002, 336 p., hardcover, $26.00.
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