Born: April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, NY, the oldest of seven children
Parents: Jewish immigrants who fled from Russia
Married: Bertha Goodman, his first cousin, in 1928, happily married until his death
Children: two daughters; Ann and Ellen
Died: June 8, 1970 in Menlo Park, California
Education
City College of New York
Cornell University
University of Wisconsin
B.A., Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1930
M.A., Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1931
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1934
Employment
1937-1951 Professor and lifelong researcher, Brooklyn College, New York
1951-1969 Chair of the psychology department at Brandeis University
Awards and Honors
1967 - named Humanist of the Year Award by the American Humanist Association
1971 - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature is published posthumosly; received the American Psychological Foundation's Gold Medal Award
Membership-Professional Organizations
Publications
1934 The Organism
1954 Motivation and Personality
1962 Toward a Psychology of Being
1968 Toward a Psychology of Being
1971 His papers, published posthumously, were issued in 1971 as The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
In addition, many articles the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, which he cofounded
Professional Interest Areas
Personality
Motivation
Human hierarchy of needs
Self actualization
Major Contributions to Adult Education
Humanistic psycholoy and human potential
Concept of self actualization
Hierarchy of needs
Seeing positive side of human psychology
Additional Resources
Article
Photo Gallery
Video/Audio
Presentations
Books
Interesting Facts
In 1935 Maslow attended Columbia University as a Carneige Fellow and worked with Edward L. Thorndike. Thorndike administered an IQ test to Maslow who scored a 195 on the test.
During his tenure as a professor at Brooklyn College in New York (1937-1951), he interacted with Freudian psychologists who recently immigrated to the US from Europe such as Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, and Eric Fromm. His used his intellectual friends including Ruth Benedict as subjects in his self-actualization study.
References
Abraham H. Maslow: Books, Articles, Audio/Visual, & His Personal Papers. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.maslow.com
Hall, M. H. (1968). A conversation with Abraham Maslow. Psychology Today, pp. 35-37, 54-57.
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