Look away.

Don't push the red button!

Don't click on this video!

Don't blame me.

I have a feeling it might be the root of loneliness in a lot of.........errrr animals?  




The video is of monkeys being psychologically tortured.  
It's sick, and it's interesting.

Just what I need to start my day. Some coffee and a video of animal torture.

Maybe some would rather read about it.  

As disturbing as it is, there's something to this.

Another test he did.

"Harlow's first experiments into the effects of loneliness involved isolating a monkey in a cage surrounded by steel walls with a small one-way mirror, so the experimenters could look in, but the monkey couldn't look out. The only connection the monkey had with the world was when the experimenters' hands changed his bedding or delivered fresh water and food. Baby monkeys were placed in these boxes soon after birth; four were left for 30 days, four for six months, and four for a year.
After 30 days, the "total isolates," as they were called, were found to be "enormously disturbed": two of them refused to eat and starved themselves to death. [4] After being isolated for a year, the monkeys were found initially to barely move, didn't explore or play, were incapable of having sexual relations. When put with other monkeys for a daily play session, they were badly bullied by the other monkeys.
In order to find out how the isolates would parent, Harlow devised what he called a "rape rack," to which the female isolates were tied in the position taken by a normal female monkey in order to be impregnated. Artifical insemination had not been developed at that time. He found that, just as they were incapable of having sexual relations, they were also unable to parent their offspring, either abusing or neglecting them. "Not even in our most devious dreams could we have designed a surrogate as evil as these real monkey mothers were," he wrote. [5] Having no social experience themselves, they were incapable of appropriate social interaction. One mother held her baby's face to the floor and chewed off his feet and fingers. Another crushed her baby's head. Most of them simply ignored their offspring. [5]
These experiments showed Harlow what total and partial isolation did to developing monkeys, but he felt he hadn't captured the essence of depression, which he believed was characterized by feelings of loneliness, helplessness, and a sense of being trapped, or being "sunk in a well of despair," he said."

I think I remember this study from my psych courses. It was used to explain theory of attachment in human beings.

In all honesty the only reason I ever looked it up is because I really did started calling my in ground pool/chicken coop "The Pit of Despair" a while back.  I'm actually going to make a sign for it one of these days.   I'd also like to hang a pendulum in the middle.......but that's a completely different story.......
No doubt the only reason I thought up the name was from the Princess Bride movie.  I'd certainly never seen or heard of such studies from what I can recall.
It's horrible, and I see a lot of flaws in the simple scenarios he set up, but in my opinion, there's no denying there's something to it.

So are you an Edgar Allan Poe fan then?

To be honest his experiments seem very cruel even though they offer insight into the effects of neglect and abuse and attachment.

Cruel, yes, but the cruelty happens everyday to a lot of human kids.
Thus this site.


My opinion, again.

Yes, I do like me some Poe.

Even when it's not Edgar.  



I'm in a weird mood......
I'm not apologizing,
I'm just explaining.

:-/

Omg that book series where the pics in the vid came from creeped me out as a kid.