As people make sense of the senseless, like what is being called the Colorado Massacre or the Batman Shooting, we try to find an explanation. The world is a very scary place when we can’t explain why terrible things happen, especially to good people. The implication, of course, is that we fundamentally believe in the [...]
In my November 2011 Psychology Today post “What Maslow Misses,” I argued that Maslow’s popular Hierarchy of Needs pyramid undervalues the role of social connection in human basic survival needs and, therefore, as a driver of behavior. Recently, storytelling and management guru and Forbes contributor Steve Denning picked up this idea in the context of [...]
The loss of someone as young and accomplished as Whitney Houston always gives us pause, no matter what the circumstances. We can see fans, friends, and family try to come to terms with Whitney Houston’s death in the mass media coverage and across the Internet in a cascade of Tweets and emotional tributes. We also [...]
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs model, developed in 1948, resonated across many disciplines, from business, technology and education to its field of origin, psychology. It spoke to potential and to positive conceptualizations of human motivation. As popular and widely applied as this model has been, however, insights from the use and adoption of social technologies like [...]
Hollywood’s remake of the film from the bestseller “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”is scheduled for release just before Christmas. It comes on the heels of the 2009 Swedish film versions of the Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Triology*. While not exactly family fare, I loved Larsson’s books and I’m not the only one eager to see [...]
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