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| a80f3b2 | Harlow's results showed that a mother's reassuring gentle touch --what Harlow called "contact comfort"--is a more important factor in an infant's world than food. The journalist Deborah Blum, in her excellent biography of Harlow, Love at Goon Park, summarizes his initial findings: that for a baby primate, "food is sustenance but a good hug is life itself." | Andrew Westoll |