Bright sunlight, lack of competitors, and more carbon dioxide
The results of Harlow's experiment were
overwhelming with an average infant monkey spending
17-18 hours per day on the
cloth mother and
less than an hour per day on the wire mother.
Harlow Harlow established the
nature of affection by experimenting on infant monkeys responses to compare the
influence of nursing from the influence of contact comfort. To study this, he compared
a wire mother who provided food, and a cloth mother who did not provide food.
The infant monkeys preferred contact comfort and spent more time with the cloth
mother than the wire mother.
