Researchers look for ingredients of happiness around the world
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 11:31
in Mathematics & Economics
In 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that all humans seek to fulfill a hierarchy of needs, which he represented with a pyramid. The pyramid's base, which he believed must come first, signified basic needs (for food, sleep and sex, for example). Safety and security came next, in Maslow's view, then love and belonging, then esteem and, finally, at the pyramid's peak, a quality he called"self-actualization." Maslow wrote that people who have these needs fulfilled should be happier than those who don't.