TIL in the 1970s, in order to study depression, psychologist Harry Harlow used a "pit of despair" where he put alone for up to ten weeks monkeys from 3 months to 3years old already bonded with their mothers

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TIL in the 1970s, in order to study depression, psychologist Harry Harlow used a "pit of despair" where he put alone for up to ten weeks monkeys from 3 months to 3years old already bonded with their mothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
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