The video's for these experiments were very hard to find for a long time (before the internets) due to the mostly successful attempts by the ASPCA (i think) to have all the copies destroyed, along with recordings other similar experiments, like putting a dog in a box with an electrified floor too see how long it would take for the dog to give up trying to escape and just lie down and take the repeated shocks.
Actually, that experiment was designed to test the behavior of the scientists conducting the experiment.
The theory was that if they shocked the dog repeatedly every day, their power bill would get so expensive, they would start to become angry at the dog.
Wiki "learned helplessness". There are important reasons to study that type of thing, and no way of making Puppy Torture not a bad thing. Nowadays they should make it part of a reality show so countless people will volunteer.
It's been many a year since my Psych elective, but wasn't Harlow the same guy who taught an ordinary toddler to be deathly afraid of anything cute and fuzzy just to prove he could?
Also, I want "diabolical" to come back into use in everyday dialogues.