Countless individuals have impacted and inspired me through their exploration of life or work. One person in particular who has aided me in better understanding myself is Abraham Maslow, a renowned ...

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) was born in New York, the eldest of seven children of Russian immigrant parents. As a young man, he displeased them greatly by choosing to study psychology (at the ...

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is the kind of “see it everywhere, can’t remember where you learned it” concept that pops up every so often in conversations about psychology, social issues and ...

This year marks the centenary of the great American psychologist Abraham Maslow. From where I sit—occupying the same office he did as chair of the Brandeis University psychology department until ...

In 1943, the US psychologist Abraham Maslow published a paper called A Theory of Human Motivation, external, in which he said that people had five sets of needs, which come in a particular order. As ...

"I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane," remarked Abraham Maslow, one of the founders of humanistic psychology. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, the eldest of seven children. He ...

The psychologist Abraham Maslow's theory of human motivation is 70 years old but continues to have a strong influence on the world of business. What is it, and is it right? There is a commonly ...