The Psychology of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Creative Maladjustment” at Societal Injustice and Oppression Many theoretical frameworks in psychology are premised on the notion that people are hedonistic in nature—drawn to pleasure and avoidant of discomfort. In this essay, we argue that psychology’s hedoni...

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"What King may not have realized when he appealed to psychologists in 1967 is that his conceptualization of maladjustment" "contradicted psychology’s deep-seated assumption that human beings are inherently hedonistic"