Edited by Ursula K. Saudinger Dresden University Germany Ulman Lindenberger Saarland University Germany Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 FROM THE BACK COVER Understanding developmental processes in the individual as well as in aggregates of individuals is an important aim of many of the social and behavioral sciences. This book presents a theoretical framework for this endeavor - an architecture for the study of human development (biology and culture) and posits three central developmental mechanisms (selection, optimization and compensation). TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD K. Warner Schaie xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xv 1. WHY READ ANITHER BOOK ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT? UNDERSTANDING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT TAKES A METATHEORY AND MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES Ursula M. Staudinger and Ulman Lindenberger 1 I. THE OVERALL ARCHITECTURE OF LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT 15 2. ON THE INCOMPLETE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMAN ONTOGENY:SELECTION, OPTIMIZATION, AND COMPENSATION AS FOUNDATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY Paul B. Baltes 17 3. AGE DIFFERENCES IN EVOLUTIONARY SELECTION BENEFITS Thomas B. L. Kirkwood 45 4. AGE DIFFERENCES IN CULTURAL EFFICIENCY: SECULAR TRENDS IN LONGEVITY Heiner Maicr and James W. Vaupel 59 II. BASIC PROCESSES OF LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT: SELECTIVE OPTIMIZATION VVITH COMPENSATION (SOC) 79 5. THE PROCESS OF SUCCESSFUL AGING: SELECTION, OPTIMIZATION, AND COMPENSATION Margret M. Baltes (deceased January, 1999) and Laura L. Carstensen 81 6. INTENTIONALITY AND TIME IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND AGING: COMPENSATION AND GOAL ADJUSTMENT IN CHANGING DEVELOPMENTAL CONTEXTS Jochen Brandtstddter and Klaus Rothermund 105 7. AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE ON SELECTION, OPTIMIZATION, AND COMPENSATION (SOC) Jere R. Behrman 125 III. A LIFESPAN VIEW OF SELF AND PERSONALITY 157 8. COMPLETING THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT: TEMPERAMENT, CHARACTER, AND COHERENCE C. Robert Cloninger 159 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 183 10. THE GAIN-LOSS DYNAMIC IN LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHANGE IN SELF AND PERSONALITY DURING OLD AND VERY OLD AGE Jacqui Smith 215 IV. A LIFESPAN VIEW OF INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITION 243 11. ENABLEMENT AND CONSTRAINT Henry M. Wellman 245 12. INTERRELATIONS OF AGING, KNOWLEDGE, AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE Timothy A. Salthouse 265 13. FORMAL MODELS OF AGE DIFFERENCES IN TASK-COMPLEXITY EFFECTS Reinhold Rliegl, Ralf T. Krampe, and Ulrich Mayr 289 V. AT THE FRONTIERS OF LIFESPAN METHODOLOGY 315 14. STRUCTURING AND MEASURING CHANGE OVER THE LIFE SPAN John R. Nesselroade and Paolo Ghisletta 317 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 339 16. COMBINING MOLECULAR AND QUANTITATIVE GENETICS: DECOMPOSING THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT Gerald E. McClearn 361 VI. THE FUTURE OF LIFESPAN PSYCHOLOGY: COMMENTS FROM RELATED FIELDS AND NEIGHBORING DISCIPLINES 381 17. THE FUTURE OF LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: PERSPECTIVES FROM CONTROL THEORY Jutta Heckhausen 383 18. WITHOUT GENDER, WITHOUT SELF Gisela Labouvie-Vief 401 19. CONTRIBUTIONS OF LIFESPAN PSYCHOLOGY TO THE FUTURE ELABORATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS THEORY Richard M. Lerner, Elizabeth Dowling, and Susanna Lara Roth 413 20. THE ADAPTIVE TOOLBOX AND LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT: COMMON QUESTIONS? Gerd Gigerenzer 423 21. THE NATURE-NURTURE PROBLEM REVISITED Wolf Singer 437 22. SECONDARY SCHOOL AS A CONSTRAINT FOR ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT Olaf Koller, Jurgen Baumert, and Kai U. Schnabel 449 23. THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE LIFE COURSE AND LIFESPAN PSYCHOLOGY: DIVERGING OR CONVERGING PATHWAYS? Karl Ulrich Mayer 463 24. PHILOSOPHY OR THE SEARCH FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSTANTS Jurgen Mittelstrass 483 AUTHOR INDEX 495 SUBJECT INDEX 513 FOREWORD 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 contributors 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 human 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 another 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 leadership 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. The volume begins with a section on the architecture of lifespan development. This section reprints Baltes's seminal 1997 article on the incomplete architecture of humans to lay the foundation for discussions of life-stage differences in evolutionary selection benefits as well as the secular changes in cultural efficiency. This is followed by applications of the selective optimization with compensation (SOC) theory to basic developmental processes, including a novel economic perspective. SOC theory plays a prominent role in the next section, which details a lifespan view on self and personality. Here concepts of gains and losses and efforts to reconcile the conflicting themes of continuity and change in adults provide prominent themes. The section on lifespan views of intelligence and cognition traces new directions that have not been broadly covered previously. This material is followed by several important contributions on new methodological approaches for the study of change, including issues in molecular and quantitative genetics. What is perhaps most interesting and useful in this volume is the final section, which includes comments from related fields and disciplines. Although many developmental psychologists have begun to pay attention to other disciplines, we have heard relatively little from our colleagues that specifically addresses developmental issues. The final eight contributions span the fields of education, anthropology, sociology, sociobiology, social psychology, and experimental psychology. All these contributions contain important efforts to view human development as a core process that deserves to be incorporated into the theoretical structure of many disciplines. The contributors to this volume represent a thoughtful selection of some of the most productive and creative thinkers on human development in the United States and Western Europe. I was greatly stimulated by reading this wealth of new thoughts on human development, and I know that no reader will put down this book without having been influenced and steered into new directions. 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