PSYCHOLOGIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Harlow has received more than 1,823,912 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Harry Harlow is the 145th most popular psychologist (down from 78th in 2019), the 3,115th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,207th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Harry Harlow ranks 145 out of 235. Before him are Léopold Szondi, Elizabeth Loftus, Françoise Dolto, Roberto Assagioli, Jordan Peterson, and Alexander Bain. After him are Ernest Jones, Walter Mischel, Rensis Likert, Georgi Lozanov, Fritz Heider, and Benjamin Spock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Harry Harlow ranks 118. Before him are Martin Gottfried Weiss, Bruno Rossi, Anfilogino Guarisi, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Victor Kravchenko, and Joseph Bonanno. After him are Leo Genn, Hiroshi Inagaki, Maximilian Grabner, Louis Harold Gray, Henry Koster, and Hans Freudenthal. Among people deceased in 1981, Harry Harlow ranks 80. Before him are Yakov Pavlov, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Glauber Rocha, Alexander Kotov, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, and Savitri. After him are Helmut Gröttrup, Nargis, Jerzy Neyman, Michele Andreolo, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, and Ivan Eklind.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Harlow ranks 3,115 out of 20,380. Before him are Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Raymond Smullyan (1919), John Waters (1946), Jedediah Smith (1799), Sun Ra (1914), and Carmen Electra (1972). After him are Eric Stoltz (1961), Carla Gugino (1971), Grandma Moses (1860), Leon Czolgosz (1873), Maila Nurmi (1922), and Curtis Hanson (1945).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Harry Harlow ranks 48. Before him are Carol Gilligan (1936), Robert Plutchik (1927), George Kelly (1905), J. P. Guilford (1897), Brian Weiss (1944), and Elizabeth Loftus (1944). After him are Rensis Likert (1903), Benjamin Spock (1903), David Ausubel (1918), Jonathan Haidt (1963), Julian Rotter (1916), and James J. Gibson (1904).

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