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1 Questions
2 Critiques?
3 Connections to Evolutionary Biology
4 three new stages of Maslow's Model
5 Image

[edit] Questions

what was Abraham Maslow occupation? Psychologist. (Humanistic)

Did Maslow view himself as a self-actualized individual?

Not as far as I know. The list in my psychology textbook of people he considered self-actualized is Freud, Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson, and that's it. -Nietzscheanlie 12:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Why is "sex" at the base of the pyramid? It is a well-documented fact that animals in zoos will only mate if their basic needs are fulfilled, and most will mate only if all the layers of the pyramids are fulfilled. Should'nt "sex" figure higher on the pyramid? --Ireon 22:32, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Maslow put it there? Also, I think the basic needs (food, water, excretion, sleep, etc.) are on the same level as sex, so it would make sense that there might be an order of priority within the step on the pyramid. The step groups sex with the other ones because it is a biologically driven desire, harkening back to its heyday as Freud's go-to motivation for basically everything and its mom. -Nietzscheanlie 12:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Critiques?

How do other Psychologists view of his works? Critiques?

Here is a schwedish critical opinion: http://www.physto.se/~vetfolk/Folkvett/19992maslow.html

Something else:

Can You give an answer to the following cases, that doesn't fit in the Maslow's hierachy:

-- For example artists, novelists can be starving and they can isolate themselves from social life to do their work?

-- Suicidal behavior

With king regars Hanna

I don't see how they "don't fit". I wouldn't have put it that way. Artists don't starve to the point that they can't move, and even when they and religious people fast, they do it on a temporary basis. Suicide has a myriad of psychological things associated with it. How are you relating it? It doesn't conflict with the ideas of Maslow concerned here. --DanielCD 16:40, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Maslow's theory didn't really incorporate much psychopathology. As a humanistic psychologist he would have followed Carl Rogers' theory concerning discrepancies between actual and ideal self leading to psychopathology. Perhaps, when I'm less busy, I'll add stuff to this article that it sorely needs including refinements to the hierarchy including deficiency motivations, his work with monkeys, and gender biases unless somebody beats me to it. A lot of the psy articles in Wikipedia need work and I'll probably put some work in over the summer.Blue Leopard 10:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

hi, i have a made more space-saving (and imho more beautiful) graphic of the pyramid. http://me.phillipoertel.com/files/pyramid_of_website_needs.png feel free to use it if you like.

[edit] Connections to Evolutionary Biology

It gets really interesting looking at Maslow with an evolutionary biologist's toolbox. Up to the level of self-actualization everything makes a lot of sense, but from that point onward completely different dynamics ensue. Biologically, if an entity has reached the top of its abilities and has verified that this is indeed true and not wishful thinking (a translation for the very vague term of "self-actualization"), it necessarily will switch from entity-egoistic programs to genetical-code supporting programs.

In plain English: There need to be higher levels in the pyramid, constituting needs that would appear "altruistic" to psychologists. Since this is a self-emergent system under evolutionary selection, thinking in terms of "self-interest" of a single unit leads you completely astray.Hirsch.im.wald 11:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] three new stages of Maslow's Model

there is also three new stages that have come about over time the first two were in the 1970s thers stages are: Congitive needs: the need for koowledge and meaning. and Aesthetic needs: the appreciation and search for beauty, balance, form. These two new stages fit between stages four and five. The third new stage was that of "Transcendence needs": or the helping others to achieve self actualization. this is now the eighth and final stage of Maslows model.

for mor infomation see http://www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm

[edit] Image

I've created a cleaner version of the hierarchy pyramid but I'm not very familiar with the procedure to follow when replacing images. This is the image: