Contact Comfort: A Reconsideration of the Original Work

Abstract

Contrary to general belief, published reports of the original infant/surrogate work contain few data to support the idea of a need for contact comfort, and the data which they do contain are incomplete. There appears to have been, no published formal replication of the 1958 work, and replication now may not be possible; the original data probably no longer exist, and published reports contain few details of methods or results.