Curiosity falls under the “stimulation” heading, as does skill acquisition for its own sake (e.g. video games).
To be fair, the SASS list is more a convenient set of categories, than it is an attempt to be a comprehensive and rigorously-proven classification system. However, it’s definitely “less wrong” than assuming everything is about status… yet not so unwieldy as the systems that claim 16 or more basic human drives.
Curiosity falls under the “stimulation” heading, as does skill acquisition for its own sake (e.g. video games).
To be fair, the SASS list is more a convenient set of categories, than it is an attempt to be a comprehensive and rigorously-proven classification system. However, it’s definitely “less wrong” than assuming everything is about status… yet not so unwieldy as the systems that claim 16 or more basic human drives.
That I can live with. :)