# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/clayton-alderfer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:35:55.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/clayton-alderfer"
name: "Clayton Alderfer"
slug: "clayton-alderfer"
description: "Clayton Paul Alderfer was an American psychologist and consultant known for developing Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs into a framework of three essential categories: existence, relatedness, and growth."
tagline: "Psychologist (1940–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Alderfer%27s_ERG_Theory.svg/330px-Alderfer%27s_ERG_Theory.svg.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1940-09-01"
deathDate: "2015-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.547085333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%8B%E9%9B%B7%E9%A1%BF%C2%B7%E5%9F%83%E5%B0%94%E5%BE%B7%E5%BC%97"
    title: "克雷顿·埃尔德弗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Alderfer"
    title: "Clayton Alderfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Alderfer"
    title: "Clayton Alderfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Alderfer"
    title: "Clayton Alderfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Alderfer"
    title: "Clayton Alderfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Alderfer"
    title: "Clayton Alderfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%81%B4%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%84%B4_%EC%95%A8%EB%8D%94%ED%8D%BC"
    title: "클레이턴 앨더퍼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q909157"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump