List of basic needs

All human behaviour is ultimately the product of the interaction of an individual's physiological and psychological needs, his or her history, and the direct physical and social environment.

List of basic needs

Giep Franzen, Steven Reiss, Jeffrey Vancouver, James Austin, Martin Ford & Clay Nichols

All human behaviour is ultimately the product of the interaction of an individual's physiological and psychological needs, his or her history, and the direct physical and social environment. It is widely assumed that all people share a set of basic needs which are the product of evolution and which are coded in their DNA. (Reiss, 2000, Ford 1992)

Over the past century, a succession of philosophers and psychologists has attempted to develop a...

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