TEMPE, Ariz. – If you have ever felt that your children are your life's work, then you may in fact be recognizing a high-level psychological need. Caring for your children, feeding them, nurturing ...

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 ...

Kenrick also thinks the longevity of the hierarchy of needs can be explained by the pyramid which came to represent it, and which "captures a complicated idea in a very simple way". Maslow's theories ...

You may remember Abraham Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs. The popular pyramid (first published in 1943 and still a regular fixture in classrooms and corporate teambuilding exercises) puts forth a ...

A team of psychologists who have updated a cornerstone of modern psychology — Abraham Maslow’s pyramid of needs — has triggered a controversy on the way. Maslow’s pyramid describes human motivations ...

Recently Mike Michalowicz, one of the most prominent authors on entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises ( SMEs), launched his new book Fix This Next, which we could translate as Solve ...

One of the fun little things about economics is that it works both ways. This is not a reference to some interesting perversion, rather that if A leads to B, and then we see B happening, we can start ...

The psychologist Abraham Maslow's theory of human motivation is 70 years old but continues to have a strong influence on the world of business. What is it, and is it right? There is a commonly ...