| − | Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the oldest of seven children. His parents were uneducated Jews from Kyiv, Ukraine. He was slow and tidy, and remembered his childhood as lonely and rather unhappy, because, as he said, "I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I was isolated and unhappy. I grew up in libraries and among books." He would pursue law, but he went to graduate school at the [[University of Wisconsin]] to study [[psychology]]. While there, he married his first cousin Bertha in December 1928, and found his chief mentor, professor [[Harry Harlow]]. At Wisconsin he pursued an original line of research, investigating [[primate]] [[Dominance (ethology)|dominance]] behaviour and [[Human sexuality|sexuality]]. He went on to further research at [[Columbia University]], continuing similar studies; there he found another mentor in [[Alfred Adler]], one of [[Sigmund Freud]]'s early colleagues. | + | Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the oldest of seven children. His parents were uneducated Jews from Kyiv, Ukraine. He was slow and tidy, and remembered his childhood as lonely and rather unhappy, because, as he said, "I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I was isolated and unhappy. I grew up in libraries and among books." He would pursue law, but he went to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin to study [[psychology]]. While there, he married his first cousin Bertha in December 1928, and found his chief mentor, professor [[Harry Harlow]]. At Wisconsin he pursued an original line of research, investigating [[primate]] [[Dominance (ethology)|dominance]] behaviour and [[Human sexuality|sexuality]]. He went on to further research at [[Columbia University]], continuing similar studies; there he found another mentor in [[Alfred Adler]], one of [[Sigmund Freud]]'s early colleagues. |