The Psychology of Science¶
Maslow, A. H. (1966). The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance. Harper & Row.
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Cited by¶
4 citations across 4 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Primes¶
- Law of the Instrument
- Maslow's formulation — "if the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail
This sourceSource of the formulation 'I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail' (Maslow's hammer / the law of the instrument).
- Maslow's formulation — "if the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail
Domain-specific¶
- Golden Hammer Anti-Pattern
- The proverbial form is the law of the instrument, so named by Abraham Kaplan (The Conduct of Inquiry, 1964), in the version best known from Abraham Maslow (The Psychology of Science, 1966): "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
This sourceMaslow's statement that "it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail".
Supported in partVerified against the source
- The proverbial form is the law of the instrument, so named by Abraham Kaplan (The Conduct of Inquiry, 1964), in the version best known from Abraham Maslow (The Psychology of Science, 1966): "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
Mechanisms¶
- Framework Selection Memo
- Its signature misuse is the law of the instrument — reaching for the framework you already own and back-filling the reasons, so the memo dresses a foregone lens in the language of deliberation (Maslow's hammer).
This sourceIntroduces the law-of-the-instrument warning commonly summarized as Maslow's hammer: a familiar tool makes every problem look suited to it.
- Its signature misuse is the law of the instrument — reaching for the framework you already own and back-filling the reasons, so the memo dresses a foregone lens in the language of deliberation (Maslow's hammer).
- Reusable Playbook Library
Verification¶
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Links previously used in the corpus¶
Before the registry existed this work was also linked 3 other ways.
- https://archive.org/details/psychologyofscie00masl ×1
- https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Psychology_of_Science.html?id=6k7f0AEACAAJ ×1
- https://search.worldcat.org/title/468450292 ×1
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