Western civilization has been influenced by Christian ideals and attitudes, and in turn this creates ideas about what human needs are important and what needs are less important. This has been going on for a very long time. So we would need to go back to earlier times when pagan thought was flourishing, to consider how to evaluate human needs.
Also, modern technology is increasingly crowding out the ways that human beings have historically (evolutionarily) interacted with each other...starting with the industrial revolution, and now we have the internet which has greatly shifted how we interact with each other.
I want to make this thread a place to explore various ideas of "human needs", and whether or not we have been inculcated to believe that certain needs are unnecessary because of Christian ideals (for example: you are feeling a lack or feeling unhappy because you have a "God-shaped-hole" that can only be filled by God). Of course other religions beside Christianity that have God as the focus also affect attitudes similarly. And the biggest issue is that God has rules about the "right" way to live that must be followed.
And therefore, non-Epicureans end up influencing how Epicurists view the world and make choices. For secular people instead of a "God-shaped-hole" there is a "need for meaning" (but as I've said elsewhere, that this is just coming out of Christianity, and sort of the dead-ghost of Christianity). My idea is that the "God-shaped-hole" or the "need for meaning" is actually arising out of religion's impediments within civilization toward natural human needs. And then there is the question: does civilization itself require certain needs to be repressed.
Of course there are varying temperaments in humans, and a sliding scale between introversion and extroversion which may shift over the course of a lifetime due to influences.
For a glimse of where I am going with this, I want to highlight the cultural differences of how people socially interact, such as the role of touch, which you can read more about here.
I have more to say, but will pause for now. 
