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title: "Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection"
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price: "A$78"
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# Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

**Brand:** deborah blum
**Price:** A$78
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- **What is this?** Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection by deborah blum
- **How much does it cost?** A$78 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    So well written—but it’s disturbing material
  

*by K***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2021*

This book is really well written by a skilled author. It reads almost like a work of fiction, but unfortunately, it’s all true.The science of attachment theory owes a lot to Harlow, but he himself was a tragic character, and the book is about Harlowe as it is about attachment science and theory. Harlow might have been a hard character to like, but what he proved to the world—if we will listen—is that we do need love. Even the smallest child, even the other baby primates—we need love. Without love, without physical bonding when we are young, we will become self/destructive creatures. It’s easy to understand why people behave as they do when we look at them through this lens: were they loved as small children? No? Were they neglected? If so, there will be trouble.It’s disturbing material, but this is important information for all people. It is so sad to read descriptions and see pictures of what these poor little baby primates experienced, (not to mention suffering of their mothers too), but if more of us read about what Harlow showed us, then maybe the suffering of those little baby primates was not in vain. I think that’s important to keep in mind when looking at Harlowe’s studies; no, this was not humane treatment of these helpless baby creatures, but what we learned and can learn from these studies has enormous power to change our world for the better. For that reason, these experiments have great value, even though we should acknowledge the tragedy and profound suffering of these innocent animals.This is a really good book. I’m glad I read it. It’s easy to read, as far as the beautiful writing, but the subject matter is hard to take. That’s what makes it like a work of fiction, I guess.Well done.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Better than brand new!!
  

*by A***D on Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2022*

This is a book about my Dad. The creative jacket was totally like new (including the monkey cutout and the book itself followed the same condition.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    THIS IS THE TRUTH
  

*by L***Q on Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2016*

I was wondering what love was since I have never felt love in my life.  This thought first came from a religious perspective which states that without love you have nothing.  I don't think that I have any ability to love.  I bonded with my father rather  than my mother, but this was a very limited relationship because just as I had never seen an example of familial love, neither had my parents.  I kept reaching out to my father but with no success.I have a good memory of my early childhood, and this book reinforced what I had already suspected.  While I took the blame for all of their disappointments in me, it was they who made me what I was.I lived to get away from my mother.  And I had decided by the time that I graduated from high school that I could not put another child through what I had been through.  I would have been exactly like her because I had never seen an example of a child being loved.My mother did not want to be a mother.  This book explains why I am the way that I am today, anxious and isolated and not being able to socialize.The learning disabilities that I had were monumental, but at least I lived during a time where I was not labeled.I scored poorly on the Stanford Binet test and overheard my mother say to my dad that she guessed that I would never amount to nothing.This book is so important, and if it makes women feel guilty, so be it.  How the mother treats the child determines the child's future.I love animals, and the thought of using them for testing makes me sick.  But if testing animals will make people understand what they are doing to their children, it is worth it and PETA be damned.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-13*