Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.
Background
- Born in
- Brooklyn
- Educated at
- Cornell UniversityUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonCity College of New YorkBoys High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Humanist of the Year
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Harry Harlow
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small . . . orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already…"
"Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature—she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children—I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane."
"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety."
"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
"The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute …"
"Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose."
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Timeline
1908
Born
Birth1970
Died
Death
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Thinkers whose ideas shaped Abraham's philosophy

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