Psychology · History & Schools of Psychology
A topic within History & Schools of Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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Abraham H. Maslow
Proposes that human needs form a rough hierarchy - physiological, safety, love, esteem, self-actualisation - in which lower needs generally have to be reasonably satisfied before higher ones become motivating, the founding statement of humanistic psychology's alternative to psychoanalysis and behaviourism.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Abraham H. Maslow
Studies a small sample of people Maslow judged to be living unusually full lives and describes traits they shared - realism, spontaneity, autonomy from others' approval - proposing self-actualisation as an empirical case study rather than only a theoretical endpoint.