恒河猴的研究,是近代心理学上非常重要的一个实验例证。对于广大父母来说,这个例证的重要性在于:在幼龄恒河猴的成长过程中,母爱固然重要,但更不可缺少同龄的玩伴。 1940年初期,美国威斯康星州立大学的哈洛(博士)夫妇对恒河猴进行了一系列实验,其中之一是:他们把新生猴与母亲组成一对然后再分三组。第一组的新生猴单独与母亲相处,得到正常的母爱但没有机会与玩伴相处。第二组新生猴的母亲自己从 Research on rhesus monkeys is a very important experimental example of modern psychology. For the majority of parents, the importance of this illustration lies in the fact that maternal love is of course important in the growth of young Rhesus monkeys, but it is even more indispensable for playmates of the same age. In the early 1940s, Harlow (Wis) State University couple conducted a series of experiments on rhesus monkeys. One of them was that they made a new pair of monkeys and their mothers and then divided them into three groups. The first group of new born monkeys live alone with their mothers, who receive normal maternal love but have no chance of getting along with their playmates. The second group of new born monkeys mother from