Normally, to be stuck for four hours on a stationary aircraft with a mechanical fault would be purgatory. This time, with Deborah Blum?s perceptive book in hand, it was heaven. This is a biography that...has much to offer modern arguments about human nature.? Matt Ridley, author of Genome ?For generations of psychology students, the image of a baby monkey being comforted by a cloth doll is one of the their most indelible memories of the subject. Yet even most psychologists know little about the brilliant, funny, and infuriating man behind the experiments. Nor do many people know about its context – the fall and rise of the concept of love in social science – which is one of the great untold stories of twentieth–century intellectual history. Deborah Blum combines these elements into a gripping biograpy, written with intelligence, warmth and panache." Steven Pinker, Peter de Florez Professor of Psycbology, MIT and author of The Blank State, How the Mind Works and The...

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