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 |
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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:
“One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)