Maslow's hammer
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Working effectively with others - cognitive bias.
Maslow's hammer is a cognitive bias that involves over-reliance on a familiar tool:
- "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
- Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science, 1966.
Other versions of this quotation include, "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
Other names for the same cognitive bias include the 'law of the instrument' and the 'Einstellung Effect'.
See also
- Affinity bias
- Bandwagon bias
- Behavioural economics
- Choice supporting bias
- Cognitive bias
- Confirmation bias
- Diversity
- Dunning-Kruger effect
- Emotional intelligence
- Executive coaching
- Hindsight bias
- Impostor syndrome
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Objectivity
- Optimism bias
- Reactance bias
- Self-investment bias
- Social bias
- Source bias
- Working effectively with others
