In our ‘A salute’ guest series from Robert L. Peters, please find below the next installment about psychologist Abraham Maslow.
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‘A salute: Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)’
by Robert L. Peters
Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist noted for his conceptualization of a “hierarchy of human needs”—today he is considered the founder of humanistic psychology. Born into [...]
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In my previous post for Gibburt there was mention of an imaginary creature called the cattywampus. This creature was used to teach children that they should never turn off their powers of judgment and not to accept anything on without proper consideration. Unfortunately this ‘turning off your own judgment’ in the face of authority (doctors, [...]
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As I’m very busy at the present time, this is not going to be a full-blown blog post. I would just like to share with our readers some very interesting videos that I’ve come across recently.
Firstly, a fascinating one hour talk talk by Andy Thomson in which he explains some of the powerful psychological mechanisms [...]
Filed under: Politics, Science by Ralf Damaschke | Social tagging: Adam Curtis > Andy Thomson > Charlie Brooker > news > psychology
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