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Behavioral effects of peer separation, isolation, and reunion on adolescent male rhesus monkeys
Author(s) -
Bowden Douglas M.,
McKinney William T.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/dev.420050408
Subject(s) - social isolation , separation (statistics) , psychology , isolation (microbiology) , physiology , motor activity , depression (economics) , developmental psychology , biology , endocrinology , psychiatry , bioinformatics , macroeconomics , machine learning , computer science , economics
Six adolescent male rhesus monkeys which had lived in pairs for 6–8 months were studied for behavioral adaption to 2 weeks of separation‐isolation and 4 days of reunion. The response to separation was 1–3 days of increased locomotion and object‐oriented behavior followed by a long term increase in self‐directed behaviors. The latter phase differed significantly from the anaclitic depression of infants separated from their mothers. Reunion produced one day of intense social activity followed by a return to behavior patterns characteristic of the preseparation period. A large component of the initial motor excitement following separation may be nonspecific response to gross change in the environment.