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The Pit of despair was a name used by American psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, officially called a vertical isolation chamber apparatus……
Harlow has previously been on this channel with his monkey mother experiment : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdbnwrNbINI
00:00 Intro
01:36 Background
02:44 Partial Isolation
05:29 Total Isolation in Monkeys
10:12 Harlows Depression
12:24 The Pit
18:07 My Rating
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Where would you rate this series of experiments on my scale? 1 Being not bad 10 being pure evil!
I wonder if he saw himself on those monkeys, even if in a broken way…
Saying your first name in the intro of your videos is a really good idea. It makes you seem WAY more personable. Also, a first name is hardly enough information to 'doxx' someone, so it's not like you're oversharing
This video taught me that I would like 5 minutes alone with Harlow…the monkey torturer. This is just cruel…and for what?
Psychologists are the most evil and vile of animal abusers…how anyone can trust or take advicd from such twisted minds ldont know.
The WHOLE of the Psych disciplines is about cruelty and dispicable abuse…
Those who do these type of Psych 'studies' are vile evil and inhumane experimental Mengele type personalities
Ah yes, more of the Handplates with monkeys.
Also, Harry Harlow… are you ok? Do you need some help? Is everything alright?
Anyone else notice Striking similarities between this experiment and social distracting of 2020? I do…
Sounds like the experiments from the movies of "Secret of NIHM"
Harlows work would then go on to be a staple of modern living, and no one rebelled one bit.
Researcher to monkey: What did this do to you? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest – how do you feel?
as someone who might have depression or might have some other mental disorder, what i will never understand is why Harlow felt the need to create depression in any other living being. like yeah, okay, he thought maybe it could lead to a cure, but like….that still doesnt excuse it in my mind. depression is awful…why would you subject anyone, animal or human, to it?
The partial isolation part of experiment can be well translated to humans. See people buying body pillows
I'll never get how they use animals for psychological experiments to that clearly mess them up, then turn around and say animals aren't sentient.
If I knew this man, I would have murdered him and taken these poor animals.
This is 10 on the scale of terrible things. Any research that does physical or mental harm to a sentient being is in my opinion entirely unethical and should long be forbidden. I do not consider this to be research. .
I’m down deep. I don’t even think a therapy moneky could fix me
My parents did this to me and I turned out ok.
Why do you add unnecessary pauses in the middle of your sentences? Really throws off the rhythm of the narration.
Is it possible Harlow had imposter syndrome?
seriously f*ck this scientist. And being a patient myself, I highly doubt that depression was his only problem.
He can't just do all that to monkeys and NOT tell me how to cure my depression!! Will moving back in with my mother help??? I NEED ANSWERS!
Monkeys suck anyway
For some good news, in an class about animal experimentation and the rules and regulations (Netherlands) primate studies are extremely rare with 40 monkeys a year and there are random checks for following guidelines. Also you need to pass a very strict ethical board and explain why you can’t use another organism for testing.
Harlowe is like an abusive parent taking out his own frustrations on those who depend on him.
Wtf, after seeing the 3 months isolated monkeys I would've stopped the experiments: it was obvious already that isolation would cause a bad effect
Seriously, this is just unnecessarily cruel. I don't understand why this wasn't stopped before it got out of hand.
He built a monkey oubliette?! What the hell man?
I hope Harlow died from extrem isolation. They have done the same thing to other human beings they called monkeys…
Life is not difficult and cruel enough, so we have such experiments? Maybe we can experiment on people who do these kind of experiments. We can measure the irony, make a graph, etc. Publish the results.
i feel as though Harlow's attitudes towards his test subjects and his struggles with mental health is proof enough for impacts of lack of parental contact/connection, as it has been noted that his parents (especially his mother) were quite cold to him
dude pretty much said "yo i have some mommy issues imma go torture some monkeys to try and find out whats up with me"
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I started a blog trying to outline some of these experiences from a totally logical point of view and I'm planning on adding more. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at my blog and see if it's something you'd consider covering in one of your videos (with names changed for anonymity's sake.)
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Grant Board: "So your proposal here says you want to make monkeys sad."
Harlow: "I want to study isolation's effects on depression."
Grant Board: "And you plan on doing this by, and I quote, by putting them in a 'pit of despair'."
Harlow: "That's right."
Grant Board: "Seems perfectly reasonable, you're approved."
stay home , save lives! NOT.
"You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!"
This almost as bad as the time that Dr. Anthony Fauci tied down several beagles and allowed them to be eaten alive by sand flies.
This remind me of something ohhhh yeah the unless lockdowns which caused children to lack the ability to tell facial expression and to interact with other children.
Whole life is depressing as F, so no, i don't care some monkeys experienced it as well…
oh yea. Today this experiment wouldn't even fly because of the ethics involved.
Important studies. Not unethical.
This was heartless,cruel,evil, sadistic.😥
Whats the point of these experiment? The outcome is always evil
… I’m off to hug my son and my dogs. That was bloody horrible. I understand that medical research can reap worthwhile rewards.
But you don’t need to be a bloody expert to know that separating infants from their mothers will cause behavioural problems.
These studies went way, way too far and seem to have reaped less and less useful information as the cruelty increased.
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He dint isolate then he locked them up in small boxes. He just wanted to see how much of this type of torture they can endure
They could have been isolated in a nice nature-looking place where a monkey can be a monkey. Not a fetus in a box.
Who is giving these maniacs money and power for this? To prove things any person with a sane mind can tell you?
You know what creates depression? People like Harlow.
They were only monkeys so overall, not too bad.
Great and depressing video. The despair I had was seeing the word 'despair' spelled 'dispair'. Yes, I'm easily hurt. 😅
"The zenith of his life's work"
Imagine how pathetic you have to be for your life's work to be making monkeys go insane.
The story of one little boy who worked hard, stayed in school, and grew up to achieve his dreams of monkey torture.
In my experience isolation to the mentally disturbed is akin to a bottle of whiskey to an alcoholic. Although it should probably be stated outright more often than not no one is forcing a glass of whiskey into the hands of an alcoholic. Would not put it past 'society' though honestly to happen or have happened as most of the time it seems we prefer creating problems where none previously existed in order to satisfy some vain, imaginary sense of self gratification within our claims to have ever actually 'fixed' anything regarding 'society' as a whole, over fixing issues which actually exist continually piling up to the point it is tacitly deemed impossible to actually fix any of them. Although we of course continue the charade for all the aforementioned reasons. Good times.