If you’ve ever taken a general psychology course, you’ve seen Maslow’s pyramid of motives—it’s one of the field’s most vivid and memorable images. Maslow proposed a hierarchy of motives, with those at ...

Abraham Maslow believed that human needs had a hierarchy. Survival needs were the base needs, while “loftier” goals were closer to the top. The idea is that survival needs must be satisfied as a ...

In 1943, Abraham Maslow published his foundational work on the hierarchy of human needs. Maslow noted that human needs span from tangible — food and water (sustenance) — to intangible — self-esteem ...