Five Affection Needs
American psychologist Henry Murray developed a theory of personality that was organized in terms of motives, presses, and needs. According to Murray, these psychogenic needs function mostly on the unconscious level, but play a major role in our personality. Murray classified five affection needs:
| Need | Definition |
|---|---|
| Affiliation | Spending time with other people |
| Nurturance | Taking care of another person |
| Play | Having fun with others |
| Rejection | Rejecting other people |
| Securance | Being helped or protected by others |
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Famous quotes containing the word affection:
“Any one who knows what the worth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little portraits stuck over a labourer’s fireplace ... will perhaps feel with me that in counteracting the tendencies, social and industrial, which every day are sapping the healthier family affections, the sixpenny photograph is doing more for the poor than all the philanthropists in the world.”
—Macmillan’s Magazine (London, September 1871)