Understanding human development : dialogues with lifespan psychology / edited by Ursula M. Staudinger and Ulman Lindenberger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / K. Warner Schaie -- 1. Why Read Another Book on Human Development? Understanding Human Development Takes a Metatheory and Multiple Disciplines / Ursula M. Staudinger and Ulman Lindenberger -- I. The Overall Architecture of Lifespan Development -- 2. On the Incomplete Architecture of Human Ontogeny: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation as Foundation of Developmental Theory / Paul B. Baltes -- 3. Age Differences in Evolutionary Selection Benefits / Thomas B. L. Kirkwood -- 4. Age Differences in Cultural Efficiency: Secular Trends in Longevity / Heiner Maier and James W. Vaupel -- II. Basic Processes of Lifespan Development: Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC) -- 5. The Process of Successful Aging: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation / Margret M. Baltes and Laura L. Carstensen -- 6. Intentionality and Time in Human Development and Aging: Compensation and Goal Adjustment in Changing Developmental Contexts / Jochen Brandtstadter and Klaus Rothermund -- 7. An Economic Perspective on Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (SOC) / Jere R. Behrman -- III. A Lifespan View of Self and Personality -- 8. Completing the Psychobiological Architecture of Human Personality Development: Temperament, Character, and Coherence / C. Robert Cloninger -- 9. The Cumulative Continuity Model of Personality Development: Striking a Balance Between Continuity and Change in Personality Traits Across the Life Course / Brent W. Roberts and Avshalom Caspi -- 10. The Gain-Loss Dynamic in Lifespan Development: Implications for Change in Self and Personality During Old and Very Old Age / Jacqui Smith -- IV. A Lifespan View of Intelligence and Cognition -- 11. Enablement and Constraint / Henry M. Wellman -- 12. Interrelations of Aging, Knowledge, and Cognitive Performance / Timothy A. Salthouse -- 13. Formal Models of Age Differences in Task-Complexity Effects / Reinhold Kliegl, Ralf T. Krampe and Ulrich Mayr -- V. At the Frontiers of Lifespan Methodology -- 14. Structuring and Measuring Change Over the Life Span / John R. Nesselroade and Paolo Ghisletta -- 15. The Relationship Between the Structure of Interindividual and Intraindividual Variability: A Theoretical and Empirical Vindication of Developmental Systems Theory / Peter C. M. Molenaar, Hilde M. Huizenga and John R. Nesselroade -- 16. Combining Molecular and Quantitative Genetics: Decomposing the Architecture of Lifespan Development / Gerald E. McClearn -- VI. The Future of Lifespan Psychology: Comments from Related Fields and Neighboring Disciplines -- 17. The Future of Lifespan Developmental Psychology: Perspectives from Control Theory / Jutta Heckhausen -- 18. Without Gender, Without Self / Gisela Labouvie-Vief -- 19. Contributions of Lifespan Psychology to the Future Elaboration of Developmental Systems Theory / Richard M. Lerner, Elizabeth Dowling and Susanna Lara Roth -- 20. The Adaptive Toolbox and Lifespan Development: Common Questions? / Gerd Gigerenzer -- 21. The Nature-Nurture Problem Revisited / Wolf Singer -- 22. Secondary School as a Constraint for Adolescent Development / Olaf Koller, Jurgen Baumert and Kai U. Schnabel -- 23. The Sociology of the Life Course and Lifespan Psychology: Diverging or Converging Pathways? / Karl Ulrich Mayer -- 24. Philosophy or the Search for Anthropological Constants / Jurgen Mittelstrass.

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