The author of this article will present at the UAs Department of Psychology Colloquium Series this Friday at 4pm. As a psychologist, I could not help noticing that this history of marriage echoes the classic “hierarchy of needs” outlined in the 1940s by the psychologist Abraham Maslow. According to Maslow, human needs fit into a five-level hierarchy: The lowest need is that of physiological well-being — including the need to eat and drink — followed by the need for safety, then for belonging and love, then for esteem and finally for self-actualization. The emergence of each need characteristically depends on the prior satisfaction of a more basic need. My colleagues and I contend that an analogous process has occurred in our expectations about marriage.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 05:07:29 +0000
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