Abraham Maslow

Abraham Harold Maslow, who lived from April 1, 1908 to 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. He 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, and a 2002 survey ranked him as the tenth most cited psychologist of the twentieth century.