

Maslow's Pyramid

by Sandra Charney on May 21, 2012

What do you think of  Maslow's hierarchy of needs?:

Maslow's Pyramid




(Maslow studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, rather than mentally ill or neurotic people, writing that "the study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy.")

**Maslow studied the healthiest 1% of the college student population.**




While the pyramid has become the de facto way to represent the hierarchy, Maslow himself NEVER used a pyramid to describe these levels in ANY of his writings on the subject! But it is a suitable way to explain the theory.







So Maslow acknowledges that many different levels of motivation are likely to be going on in a human all at ONCE.


Physiological needs



Glad to see a blog on this topic here. I believe the 'Being Need' to be a 'Self Actializer' is there in the religious ideals too, such as in 'reaching the state of nirvana' in buddhism. Maslow based these ideas on real characters so we cannot say his findings cannot have proper vallidity

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