Wellbeing as Need Fulfillment: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice

J.D. Pincus, Ph.D. is Chief Innovation Officer at Leading Indicator Systems (d/b/a AgileBrain), focusing on emerging methods for measuring emotion and motivation. He developed the unified pyramid model of human motivation and the AgileBrain measurement technique. He published his model in Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, and has gone on to apply the pyramid model to the problems of Human Values, Employee Engagement, Subjective Well-Being, Organizational Culture, Leadership Effectiveness, Team Effectiveness, and Human Goals. His seminal article on the concept of motivation in applied psychology, published in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour, has been cited in 222 subsequent papers. He lives in Massachusetts, with his wife, a Maltipoo puppy named Bean, and a black cat named Salem. His book, The Emotionally Agile Brain: Mastering the 12 Emotional Needs that Drive Us, was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield/Bloomsbury.