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-'''Harry Harlow''' (31 October 1905 - 6 December 1981) was a scientist who became infamous as the inventor the [[Pit of Despair]] experiment, which saw him torture countless monkeys (many of which were infants) to the point of insanity, he was obsessed with the effects of love and later depression on living beings and used monkeys to see how far he could push things.
+'''Harry Harlow''' (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was a scientist who became infamous as the inventor the [[Pit of Despair]] experiment, which saw him torture countless monkeys (many of which were infants) to the point of insanity, he was obsessed with the effects of love and later depression on living beings and used monkeys to see how far he could push things.
 Harlow's original experiments involved using surrogate "mothers" to test baby monkeys, with some surrogates being abusive and others being kind - seeing if the monkeys would pick food over nurture : his experiment found most monkeys picked nurture.