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Understanding Human Development

Dialogues with Lifespan Psychology

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Editors:
  1. Ursula M. Staudinger

    1. Dresden University, Germany

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  2. Ulman Lindenberger

    1. Saarland University, Germany

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Why Read Another Book on Human Development? Understanding Human Development Takes a Metatheory and Multiple Disciplines

    1. Why Read Another Book on Human Development? Understanding Human Development Takes a Metatheory and Multiple Disciplines

      • Ursula M. Staudinger, Ulman Lindenberger
      Pages 1-13

  3. The Overall Architecture of Lifespan Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. On the Incomplete Architecture of Human Ontogeny: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation as Foundation of Developmental Theory

      • Paul B. Baltes
      Pages 17-43

    3. Age Differences in Evolutionary Selection Benefits

      • Thomas B. L. Kirkwood
      Pages 45-57

    4. Age Differences in Cultural Efficiency: Secular Trends in Longevity

      • Heiner Maier, James W. Vaupel
      Pages 59-78

  4. Basic Processes of Lifespan Development: Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. The Process of Successful Aging: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation

      • Margret M. Baltes, Laura L. Carstensen
      Pages 81-104

    3. Intentionality and Time in Human Development and Aging: Compensation and Goal Adjustment in Changing Developmental Contexts

      • Jochen Brandtstädter, Klaus Rothermund
      Pages 105-124

    4. An Economic Perspective on Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (SOC)

      • Jere R. Behrman
      Pages 125-155

  6. A Lifespan View of Intelligence and Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Enablement and Constraint

      • Henry M. Wellman
      Pages 245-263

    3. Interrelations of Aging, Knowledge, and Cognitive Performance

      • Timothy A. Salthouse
      Pages 265-287

    4. Formal Models of Age Differences in Task-Complexity Effects

      • Reinhold Kliegl, Ralf T. Krampe, Ulrich Mayr
      Pages 289-313

  7. At the Frontiers of Lifespan Methodology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 315-315
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    2. Structuring and Measuring Change over the Life Span

      • John R. Nesselroade, Paolo Ghisletta
      Pages 317-337
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About this book

K. Warner Schaie I am pleased to write a foreword for this interesting volume, particularly as over many years, I have had the privilege of interacting with the editors and a majority of the con­ tributors in various professional roles as a colleague, mentor, or research collaborator. The editors begin their introduction by asking why one would want to read yet another book on human development. They immediately answer their question by pointing out that many developmentally oriented texts and other treatises neglect the theoretical foundations of human development and fail to embed psychological constructs within the multidisciplinary context so essential to understanding development. This volume provides a positive remedy to past deficiencies in volumes on hu­ man development with a well-organized structure that leads the reader from a general introduction through the basic processes to methodological issues and the relation of developmental constructs to social context and biological infrastructure. This approach does not surprise. After all, the editors and most of the contributors at one time or an­ other had a connection to the Max Planck Institute of Human Development in Berlin, whether as students, junior scientists, or senior visitors. That institute, under the leader­ ship of Paul Baltes, has been instrumental in pursuing a systematic lifespan approach to the study of cognition and personality. Over the past two decades, it has influenced the careers of a generation of scientists who have advocated long-term studies of human development in an interdisciplinary context.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dresden University, Germany

    Ursula M. Staudinger

  • Saarland University, Germany

    Ulman Lindenberger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding Human Development

  • Book Subtitle: Dialogues with Lifespan Psychology

  • Editors: Ursula M. Staudinger, Ulman Lindenberger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0357-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-7198-0Published: 31 January 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-7383-0Published: 31 January 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0357-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 519

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Personality and Social Psychology, Methodology of the Social Sciences

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