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Also known as Abraham Harold Maslow, Maslow

American psychologist (1908–1970)

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Abraham Harold Maslow (1908–1970) was an American psychologist and university teacher. He held academic degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Cornell University, and City College of New York, where he studied under Alfred Adler and was advised by Harry Harlow for his Doctor of Philosophy. Maslow worked as a professor at Brooklyn College and Brandeis University. He was a member of the American Psychological Association and identified as an atheist.

His field of work included psychology and humanistic psychology. Among his published works are *Toward a Psychology of Being*, *Theory of Human Motivation*, and *Bewusstsein, Liebe und Kreativität*. Maslow died of a myocardial infarction in Menlo Park and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

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Given name
Abraham
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Brooklyn
Place of death
Menlo Park
Occupation
psychologist
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
atheism
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Harry Harlow
Student of
Alfred Adler
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date of death
1970-06-08
date of birth
1908-04-01
cause of death
myocardial infarction
name in native language
Abraham Maslow
manner of death
natural causes
place of burial
Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Abraham Harold Maslow (/ˈmæzloʊ/ 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 Cornell University, Brooklyn College, Brandeis University, The 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". A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Maslow as the tenth most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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