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INTRODUCTION
The Puzzling Puzzles of Harry Harlow and Edward
Deci In the middle of the last century, two young scientists conducted experiments that should have changed the world—but did not.
Harry F. Harlow was a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin who, in the s, established one of the world’s first laboratories for studying primate behavior. One day in 1949, Harlow and two colleagues gathered eight rhesus monkeys fora two-week experiment on learning. The researchers devised a simple mechanical puzzle like the one pictured on the next page. Solving it required three steps pullout the vertical pin, undo the hook, and lift the hinged cover. Pretty easy for you and me, far more challenging fora thirteen-pound lab monkey.



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