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ABRAM MASLOW'S

Specialty Definition: Abraham Maslow

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Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 - June 8, 1970) was a psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was a child of Jewish Russian immigrants to the United States. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his B.A (1930), his M.A (1931), and his Ph.D (1934) in psychology.

He is author of books and of many articles. Three books are well-known till today:

• Motivation and Personality (first edition, 1954; second edition, 1970)
• Toward a Psychology of Being (1968)
• The Further Reaches of Human Nature (1971)

External links

• Wikiquote - Quotes by Abraham Maslow
• Biography and theory

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Abraham Maslow."

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