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Abraham Harold Maslow

(1908–70) An American psychologist who developed a theory of self-actualization from his observations of well-functioning individuals. He is often seen as the leading proponent ...

Maslow, Abraham Harold

Maslow, Abraham Harold (1908–70)   Reference library

The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Philosophy
Length:
1,993 words

..., Abraham Harold ( 1908–70 ) Abraham Maslow was born on 1 April 1908 in New York City, and died on 8 June 1970 in Menlo Park, California. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and Maslow grew up with a strong sense of his Jewish identity. Emotionally estranged from his parents at an early age, Maslow found solace in intellectual life; but in college he struggled to find a program of study that could fully engage him. He simultaneously studied philosophy at City College in New York City and law at Brooklyn Law School, before transferring to...

Maslow, Abraham Harold

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

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Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Religion
Length:
91 words

..., Abraham Harold ( 1908–70 ). Psychologist and theorist of human personality. He proposed ‘a hierarchical prepotency of basic needs’, goals to which we address ourselves in roughly the same order, with one desire rapidly succeeding another when the first is satisfied: physiological, safety, love, esteem, self-actualization. The self-actualized person exhibits unusual degrees of detachment and self-dependence. S/he also achieves peak-experiences in greater number, which take the individual far beyond the ordinary levels of striving to achieve more proximate...

Maslow, Abraham Harold

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The Encyclopedia of the History of American Management

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Social sciences, Business and Management
Length:
1,850 words

..., Abraham Harold ( 1908–70 ) Abraham Harold Maslow was born in New York City on 1 April 1908 , the son Samuel Maslow , a barrel repairman, and his wife Rose , both immigrants from Russia. He died in Menlo Park, California on 8 June 1970 . He married Bertha Goodman in 1928 , and they had two children. He studied psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a BA in 1930 , an MA in 1931 and a Ph.D. in 1934 . He was a research associate at Columbia University from 1935 to 197 , and from 1937 to 1951 was associate professor of...

Abraham Harold Maslow

Abraham Harold Maslow  

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(1908–70)An American psychologist who developed a theory of self-actualization from his observations of well-functioning individuals. He is often seen as the leading proponent of the so-called Third ...
Organizational Design Movement

Organizational Design Movement  

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Also known as the ‘neo-human relations school’ or ‘organizational psychology’, this was a group of writers who were influential in American and European business schools in the 1960s. The most ...
hierarchy of needs

hierarchy of needs  

A layered and categorical view of human need developed by Abraham Maslow, often used as the starting point or background to understanding basic consumer motivation. In this model, only a few people ...
Fritz Jules Roethlisberger

Fritz Jules Roethlisberger  

(1898–1974)Fritz Jules Roethlisberger was born in New York City on 29 October 1898, the son of Friedrich and Lina Roethlisberger. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 17 May 1974. ...
Douglas Murray McGregor

Douglas Murray McGregor  

(1906–64)Douglas Murray McGregor was born in Detroit, Michigan on 16 September 1906 and died at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts on 13 October 1964, following a heart attack at ...
Peter Ferdinand Drucker

Peter Ferdinand Drucker  

(1909–)Peter Drucker was born on 19 November 1909 in Vienna. His father, Adolph Drucker, was a prominent lawyer and senior civil servant. His mother, Caroline Bond, had an English ...
learning theory

learning theory  

Sometimes referred to as ‘the psychology of learning’, the body of theory about how and why learning takes place draws heavily on the work of schools of psychology as diverse as the behaviourists, on ...
self-actualization

self-actualization  

The drive people have to realize their potential and to find fulfilment. Self-actualization encompasses the human need for challenge, responsibility, creativity, and variety at work, enabling ...
motivation

motivation  

The mental processes that arouse, sustain, and direct human behaviour. Motivation may stem from processes taking place within an individual (intrinsic motivation) or from the impact of factors acting ...
Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson  

(1902–94)A developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on the social development of human beings. Through his association with Anna Freud, and his study for a certificate in ...
self

self  

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The elusive ‘I’ that shows an alarming tendency to disappear when we try to introspect it. See bundle theory of the mind or self, Cartesian dualism, personal identity.
humanism

humanism  

[De]A philosophy or ethical system that centres on the concept of the dignity, freedom, and value of human beings. The belief that there is an essential human condition that emerges regardless of ...
Psychology and Politics

Psychology and Politics   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics
Length:
2,061 words

...political environment in which socialization takes place. For instance, the fact that humans satisfy their needs sequentially, with survival needs taking precedence, explains why starving populations care more about free food than free speech and other democratic concerns ( Abraham Maslow , Motivation and Personality , New York, 1954 ). What is the impact of different political environments on the political thinking and behavior of various publics? Comparative studies of the political attitudes and actions of people living under various types of regimes in...

Psychological Interpreters of Buddhism

Psychological Interpreters of Buddhism   Reference library

Ira Helderman

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism

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Current Version:
2024
Subject:
Religion
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11,965 words

...Psychotherapists While Fromm was developing his humanistic psychoanalysis, a number of his contemporaries were theorizing new approaches to clinical practice that have come to be grouped under the larger heading of humanistic psychotherapy. Clinicians such as Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow challenged psychotherapies that were patterned off a medical model. 58 Conceptualizing the purpose of the therapist as focused on curing illness and reducing symptomology was, to these clinicians, a kind of dehumanization. The psychotherapist should no longer place an...

Mamet, David

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
5,680 words

...Ricky Roma endeavors to sell James Lingk real estate in Glengarry Glen Ross , Roma discusses anything but property values. He speaks of gratifying hungers for food, sex, and security—what Abraham Maslow identified as the most fundamental of human needs—in an unbroken monologue that tacitly promises satisfaction of these desires. That Roma would draw upon something like Maslow's hierarchy, even if only intuitively, is hardly surprising. Roma is the quintessential Mametic antihero: part psychologist, part preacher, and part seducer. He is selling more than just...

Jewish music

Jewish music   Reference library

Judah M. Cohen

The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2013
Subject:
Music, Social sciences, Regional and Area Studies
Length:
6,079 words

... Moses und Aron (premiered 1954 ), as well as new American works on various aspects of Jewish culture (including operatic settings of the Golem legend by Lazar Weiner [ 1958 ] and Abraham Ellstein [ 1962 ]). Collaborations between composers and modern dancers resulted in Jewish-themed works such as Pearl Lang's 1949 Song of Deborah (music by Richard Winslow) and Sophie Maslow's 1950 The Village I Knew (music by Samuel Matlowsky). Leonard Bernstein's emergence as a public figure, meanwhile, opened widespread conversations about musical Jewishness: in...

Maslow, Abraham

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New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.)

Reference type:
English Dictionary
Current Version:
2015
Subject:
English Dictionaries and Thesauri
Length:
52 words

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