Maslow's hierarchy of needs is an attempt to describe what motivates us humans to do what we do or to behave in certain ways. Maslow published his description in 1943, and since then, it has been ...

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory of motivation proposed by American psychologist Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in the journal Psychological Review.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is the kind of “see it everywhere, can’t remember where you learned it” concept that pops up every so often in conversations about psychology, social issues and ...