Maslow's hammer

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Working effectively with others - cognitive bias.

Maslow's hammer is a cognitive bias that involves over-reliance on a familiar tool:

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science, 1966.


Other versions of this quotation include, "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail."


Other names for the same cognitive bias include the 'law of the instrument' and the 'Einstellung Effect'.


See also