At the age of seventeen, Maslow attended City College of New York where he studied law, following his parents’ wishes. Maslow later transferred to the University of Wisconsin and fell in love with psychology and behaviorism. He then married his first cousin, Bertha, with whom he had two children. During his semesters at the University of Wisconsin, he met a psychologist named Harry Harlow. Together, they studied monkeys in Harlow’s lab. They both were very interested in the monkeys’ attachment behavior and conducted studies and research on forming attachment (Oppenheimer, D, 2013). In 1934, by the time he was 26 years old, Maslow had earned Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees (Cherry, n.d.). From 1937-1951, he taught at Brooklyn College.
