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Abraham Maslow

1908 - 1970

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Abraham Harold Maslow ( MAZ-loh; April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. Maslow was a psychology professor at Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research, and Columbia University. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms". A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Maslow as the tenth most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abraham Maslow is the 6th most popular psychologist (down from 5th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from United States (down from 79th in 2019) and the most popular American Psychologist.

Abraham Maslow is most famous for his theory of human needs. He argued that people have a hierarchy of needs, with the most basic needs at the bottom and the most complex needs at the top.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Abraham Maslow ranks 6 out of 235. Before him are Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, Erich Fromm, and Alfred Adler. After him are Wilhelm Wundt, Lev Vygotsky, Jacques Lacan, Viktor Frankl, Erik Erikson, and John Dewey.

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Among people born in 1908, Abraham Maslow ranks 6. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir, James Stewart, Enver Hoxha, Oskar Schindler, and Salvador Allende. After him are Claude Lévi-Strauss, Lyndon B. Johnson, Herbert von Karajan, Lev Landau, Otto Skorzeny, and Amon Göth. Among people deceased in 1970, Abraham Maslow ranks 8. Before him are Janis Joplin, Bertrand Russell, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Erich Maria Remarque, António de Oliveira Salazar, and Sukarno. After him are Yukio Mishima, Jimi Hendrix, Alexander Kerensky, Max Born, Nelly Sachs, and Shmuel Yosef Agnon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Abraham Maslow ranks 100 out of 20,380. Before him are John D. Rockefeller (1839), Gene Hackman (1930), Jeff Bezos (1964), Barack Obama (1961), Morgan Freeman (1937), and Jack Nicholson (1937). After him are Anthony Fauci (1940), Dustin Hoffman (1937), Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Charles H. Townes (1915), Bernie Madoff (1938), and Richard Stallman (1953).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Abraham Maslow ranks 1. After him are John Dewey (1859), William James (1842), Carl Rogers (1902), John B. Watson (1878), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), B. F. Skinner (1904), Edward Thorndike (1874), Aaron T. Beck (1921), Howard Gardner (1943), Gordon Allport (1897), and Paul Ekman (1934).

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