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Columbia University. Doctoral advisor. Harry Harlow. Abraham Harold Maslow ( / ˈmæzloʊ /; 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. [1]
David Clarence McClelland (May 20, 1917 – March 27, 1998) was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation Need Theory. He published a number of works between the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and its descendants. [1] McClelland is credited with developing ...
Raymond Cattell. Raymond Bernard Cattell (20 March 1905 – 2 February 1998) was a British-American psychologist, known for his psychometric research into intrapersonal psychological structure. [1] [2] His work also explored the basic dimensions of personality and temperament, the range of cognitive abilities, the dynamic dimensions of ...
Bernard Weiner. Bernard Weiner (born 1935) is an American social psychologist known for developing a form of attribution theory which seeks to explain the emotional and motivational entailments of academic success and failure. His contributions include linking attribution theory, the psychology of motivation, and emotion.
Frederick Irving Herzberg (April 18, 1923 – January 19, 2000 [1]) was an American psychologist who became one of the most influential names in business management. [2] [3] He is most famous for introducing job enrichment and the Motivator-Hygiene theory. His 1968 publication "One More Time, How Do You Motivate Employees?"
Albert Bandura (December 4, 1925 – July 26, 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist. He was a professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University.. Bandura was responsible for contributions to the field of education and to several fields of psychology, including social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology, and was also of influence in the transition between ...
Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi was born on 29 September 1934 in Fiume, [4] now known as Rijeka, [5] then part of the Kingdom of Italy. His family name derives from the village of Csíkszentmihály in Transylvania. [6] He was the third son of a career diplomat at the Hungarian Consulate in Fiume. [5] [7] In 1944, when Csikszentmihalyi was ten ...
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is an idea in psychology proposed by American psychologist Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in the journal Psychological Review. [1] Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human ...