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  1. The pit of despair was a name used by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, technically called a vertical chamber apparatus, that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s. [2] The aim of the research was to produce an animal model of depression.

  2. Jul 21, 2021 · The Pit Of Despair. The experiment was developed by American psychologist Harry Harlow with the hopes of producing an animal model of depression to better understand the condition and potentially ...

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  3. Feb 15, 2023 · "The Pit of Despair" was an unethical experiment conducted by comparative psychologist Harry Harlow in the 1950s. Harlow aimed to study the effects of matern...

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  5. Jun 4, 2022 · #science #history #darkThe Pit of despair was a name used by American psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, officially called a vertical isolat...

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  6. Jul 18, 2016 · The writer summarizes his work: In the 1950s, Harry Harlow of the University of Wisconsin tested infant dependency using rhesus monkeys in his experiments rather than human babies. The monkey was ...

  7. Apr 12, 2024 · Discover the shocking truth about maternal separation as we delve into psychologist Harry Harlow's controversial experiment, the Pit of Despair. Learn how ne...

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  8. Jan 18, 2022 · When the monkeys were subjected to total isolation for about 30 days in a vertical chamber (called the pit of despair; see Figure 6)—a stainless steel trough, the sides of which sloped down inwards to prevent the monkeys from climbing up to the open-top—it was enough to induce depression (Harlow & Suomi, 1971b, 1974; Harlow et al., 1970 ...

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