notable figures: Abraham Harold Maslow
(4.1.1908 - 6.8.1970)
"I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!"*
This American psychologist may be best known for his development of the concept of self-actualization as the highest in a hierarchy of human needs. (portrait courtesy C. George Boeree, PhD)
- A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50, 370-396. [The first published description of the "hierarchy of needs."] at Classics in the History of Psychology.
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- Maslow, Abraham Harold Motivation and Personality Paperback 1987
- *Maslow, Abraham Harold Toward a Psychology of Being Paperback 1968