Psychology courses introduce students to Maslow's "hierarchy of needs, " a pyramid diagram created by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow.

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These are not things you buy when you are at the low end of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

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Western Europe has turned Abraham Maslow on his head: rather than leading us up his Hierarchy of Human Needs, they seem to value little more than the animal security of the bottom rung.

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