Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
“Anyone who had a baby couldn’t be a behaviorist.”
Maslow took an intelligence test given by Edward Thorndike,on which he scored 195,the second highest ever recorded.
Maslow was the most popular professor on campus,the Frank Sinatra of Brooklyn College.During his leave,following a heart attack,he had a “peak experience” while watching a parade one day after Pearl Harbor in 1941.He decided that he would spend his professional career discovering “a psychology for the peace table.” During the time in New York,he met and learned from Alfred Adler,Karen Horney,Erich Fromm,Max Wertheimer (founder of Gestalt therapy) and Ruth Benedict,the American anthropologist.The last two people he referred to as “the most remarkable human beings.”
