A: Wants and needs are the basic driving forces in the human mind. What are the main ones? Sigmund Freud said there were mainly two: sex and aggression. Other thinkers have proposed others, like the desire for power. Most thinkers did acknowledge that people have some desire to connect with others, but it was mostly a minor afterthought.
I don’t think our 1995 paper discovered a new need so much as moved it from the background to the foreground: This is what gets people out of bed in the morning, drives their joys and sorrows, lends meaning to life or destroys it, and so forth.
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