A viral monkey, his plushie, and a 70-year-old experiment: what Punch tells us about attachment theory
By Mark Nielsen, Associate Professor, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
Punch’s attachment to his plushie isn’t just the subject of a heart-wrenching video. It harks back to the story of a very famous set of 1950s psychology experiments.
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