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  1. Oct 17, 2023 · Murray's Theory of Psychogenic Needs. American psychologist Henry Murray (1893–1988) developed a theory of personality organized in terms of motives and needs. Murray described needs as a "potentiality or readiness to respond in a certain way under certain given circumstances." Keep reading to learn about the different types of needs and how ...

  2. In 1938, Henry Murray developed a system of needs as part of his theory of personality, which he named personology.He argued that everyone had a set of universal basic needs, with individual differences on these needs leading to the uniqueness of personality through varying dispositional tendencies for each need; in other words, a specific need is more important to some than to others.

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  4. Affection needs. To be close and loyal to another person, pleasing them and winning their friendship and attention. To help the helpless, feeding them and keeping them from danger. To have fun, laugh and relax, enjoying oneself. To separate oneself from a negatively viewed object or person, excluding or abandoning it.

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  5. Mar 21, 2017 · At the time that Murray and his colleagues started their work on psychogenic needs, there was a lack of systematic study of human needs, despite there being a considerable history of researcher speculation on “impelling forces, passions, appetites or instincts” (Murray 1938/1963, p. 37). The first attempts to bring such conceptions to ...

  6. Morris Stein, who worked with Murray in the OSS and then earned a Ph.D. at the Harvard Clinic, combined Murray’s work on identifying human needs and Jung’s concept of psychological types. By looking at patterns in the rank-order of needs among industrial chemists and Peace Corps volunteers, Stein was able to divide each group into separate ...

  7. Henry Murray (born May 13, 1893, New York, New York, U.S.—died June 23, 1988, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American psychologist who developed a theory of human personality based on an individual’s inborn needs and his relationship with the physical and social environment.

  8. Oct 15, 2023 · From Catalog to Classification: Murray's Needs and the Five-Factor Model. August 1988. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 55 (2):258-265. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.55.2.258. Authors: Paul ...

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