Psychological needs can outweigh material ones in guiding action during life crises

Evidence

These psychological needs join material ones, such as the need for food and physical safety, and rival them in intensity and importance. Since the capacity to control or address life problems and to satisfy material needs is limited, the psychological needs become predominant in guiding action (Staub, 1989a, 1996, 1999b, in press). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 82

Categorization

• QUESTION: An interesting counter to maslovian/hierarchy assumptions — worth checking whether Staub backs this with empirical support beyond assertion.
• XREF: connects to: Group violence against subgroups grows from frustrated basic human needs seeking fulfillment — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 79; Difficult times heighten basic needs that scapegoat movements exploit; The self fragments into subject and object when stress ruptures immediate experience — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 22 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Difficult times heighten basic needs that scapegoat movements exploit #complicates (0.78)
• The self fragments into subject and object when stress ruptures immediate experience #expands (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 22