PSYCHOLOGIST

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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Maslow has received more than 4,718,634 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Abraham Maslow is the 5th most popular psychologist (down from 4th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from United States (down from 48th 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 5 out of 235. Before him are Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, and Alfred Adler. After him are Erich Fromm, Lev Vygotsky, Wilhelm Wundt, Jacques Lacan, John Dewey, Viktor Frankl, and William James.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Abraham Maslow ranks 7. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir, Salvador Allende, Bette Davis, James Stewart, Enver Hoxha, and Oskar Schindler. After him are Edward Teller, Lyndon B. Johnson, Herbert von Karajan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Otto Skorzeny, and Lev Landau. Among people deceased in 1970, Abraham Maslow ranks 7. Before him are Charles de Gaulle, Janis Joplin, Bertrand Russell, Gamal Abdel Nasser, António de Oliveira Salazar, and Erich Maria Remarque. After him are Jimi Hendrix, Yukio Mishima, Max Born, Sukarno, Alexander Kerensky, and Mark Rothko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Abraham Maslow ranks 79 out of 20,380. Before him are Toni Morrison (1931), Patrick Swayze (1952), Bill Clinton (1946), Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Woody Allen (1935), and Al Capone (1899). After him are Robin Williams (1951), Stephen King (1947), Morgan Freeman (1937), Larry Ellison (1944), John D. Rockefeller (1839), and Martin Luther King Jr. (1929).

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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), Edward Thorndike (1874), B. F. Skinner (1904), Howard Gardner (1943), Gordon Allport (1897), Paul Ekman (1934), and Jerome Bruner (1915).

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