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Biological and Neuropsychological Mechanisms: Life-Span Developmental Psychology
by Hayne W. Reese, Michael D. Franzen. 262 pgs.

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The West Virginia University Conferences On Life-Span Developmental Psychology

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1 The Development Of Individual Differences In Intelligence and Personality

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2 on the Mismatching of Levels Of Abstraction In Mathematical-Statistical Model Fitting

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3 The Validity Of Neuropsychological Assessment Procedures

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4 Correlates of Language Development: Electrophysiological And Behavioral Measures

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5 Electrophysiological Correlates of Memory Development in the First Year Of Life

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6 Neurological Risk Factors And Soft Signs in Early Neuropsychological Development

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7 Early Physiological Patterns And Later Behavior

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8 The Development Of Lateralization

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9 Adolescent Substance Abuse: A Biopsychosocial Perspective

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10 Age-Related Risk Factors For Cognitive Impairment

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Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Introduction to Research Methods
by Paul B. Baltes, Hayne W. Reese, John R. Nesselroade. 274 pgs.

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Part One: The Field of Developmental Psychology

Chapter One: Why Developmental Psychology?

Summary

Chapter Two: An Illustration of the Developmental Approach: the Case of Auditory Sensitivity

Part Two: General Issues in Research Methodology

Chapter Three: The Nature of Theories and Models

Chapter Four: The Nature of Scientific Methods

Chapter Five: The Internal Validity of Research Designs

Chapter Six: The External Validity of Research Designs

Chapter Seven: Measurement

Chapter Eight: Data Analysis and Interpretation

Part Three: Objectives and Issues of Developmental Research in Psychology

Chapter Nine: The Scope of Developmental Psychology

Chapter Ten: Targets of Developmental Analysis

Chapter Eleven: Developmental Research Paradigms

Chapter Twelve: Time and Change: the Basic Data Matrix

Part Four: Descriptive Developmental Designs

Chapter Thirteen: Simple Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Methods

Chapter Fourteen: Sequential Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Strategies

Chapter Fifteen: Developmental Design and Change in Subject Populations with Age

Chapter Sixteen: Change in Populations and Sampling: Assessment and Control

Chapter Seventeen: Selected Issues in Developmental Assessment

Chapter Eighteen: Modeling Change over Time: from Description to Explanation

Part Five: Explanatory-Analytic Developmental Research

Chapter Nineteen: Toward Explanation

Chapter Twenty: Cross-Cultural and Comparative Developmental Psychology

Chapter Twenty-One: Heredity-Environment Research and Development

Chapter Twenty-Two: Developmental Research on Learning: Group Designs

Chapter Twenty-Four: Structural Models: the Continuing Search for Causes

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Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Methodological Contributions
by Stanley H. Cohen, Hayne W. Reese. 292 pgs.

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1: The Data/Theory Dialectic: The Nature of Scientific Progress

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2: Reflections on a "Model" Approach to Metapsychology

INTRODUCTION

CONCLUSION

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INTRODUCTION

3: Developmental Designs Revisited

CONCLUDING REMARKS

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4: Survey Methodology in Life-span Human Development Research

INTRODUCTION

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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5: Single-Subject Designs and Developmental Psychology

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6: Notes from the Field: On the Coordinated Use of Quantitative and Qualitative Data

INTRODUCTION

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INTRODUCTION

6: Notes from the Field: On the Coordinated Use of Quantitative and Qualitative Data

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7: Behavioral Systems Methodology: Investigating Continuity and Organization in Developmental Interactions

8: Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Management: Some Recent Innovations in the Management and Analysis of Field Notes

CONCLUSION

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9: Repeated Measures Analysis in Developmental Research: What Our ANOVA Text Didn'T Tell Us

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INTRODUCTION

10: Using Multivariate Data to Structure Developmental Change

Conclusions

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Perspectives on Stress and Coping
by E. Mark Cummings, Anita L. Greene, Katherine H. Karraker. 345 pgs.

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I: Theoretical Issues

1: Coping across the Life Span: Theoretical Issues

2: A Diacritical Function Approach to Emotions and Coping

II: Infancy

3: Stress and Coping from Pregnancy through the Postnatal Period

4: A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Maternal Stress and Protective Factors on the Development of High-Risk Children

5: Normative Stress and Coping Processes in Infancy

III: Childhood

6: Stress during Childhood and Adolescence: Sources of Risk and Vulnerability

7: Children's Coping with Angry Environments: a Process-Oriented Approach

8: The Protective Role of Competence Indicators in Children at Risk

IV: Adolescence

9: Understanding Coping within Adolescence: Ego Development and Coping Strategies

10: Variation in Stress Reactivity during Adolescence

V: Adulthood

VI: Older Adulthood

VII: Epilogue

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Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Intergenerational Relations
by Nancy Datan, Anita L. Greene, Hayne W. Reese. 280 pgs.

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I Theoretical And Methodological Issues

1 Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives on Generational Relations

2 Oedipal Conflict, Platonic Love: Centrifugal Forces In Intergenerational Relations

3 Intergenerational Research: Methodological Considerations

Ii Integenerational Relations and Change

4 Family and Community Networks in Appalachia

5 Asymmetrical Kin and The Problematic Son-In-Law

6 Daughters and Sons as Young Adults: Restructuring the Ties That Bind

7 Family Ties and Life Chances: Hard Times and Hard Choices In Women's Lives Since The 1930s

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8 The Role of the Family in The Development of Mental Abilities: a 50-Year Study1

Iii Salutogenic And Pathogenic Processes

9 Intergenerational Networks And Transmitting the Sense Of Coherence

10 Reciprocal Socialization And The Care of Offspring With Cancer and With Schizophrenia

11 Elder Abuse Resulting From Caregiving Overload in Older Families

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Life-Span Perspectives and Social Psychology
by Ronald P. Abeles. 177 pgs.

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Foreword

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Introduction

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2: Attributions As Dynamic Elements In a Lifespan Social Psychology

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3: Contemporary Social Psychology And Aging

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4: Personal Control Through The Life Course

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5: The Self In Temporal Perspective

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6: Social Support And Social Networks

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Developmental Psychology: An Advanced Textbook (Chap. 12 "The Life-Span Perspective in Developmental Psychology")
by Marc H. Bornstein, Michael E. Lamb. 592 pgs.

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Developmental Psychology: An Advanced Textbook

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List of Contributors

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1: A History of Systems in Developmental Psychology

2: Methodology

3: Perceptual Development

4: Cognitive Development

5: Current Issues in Language Learning

6: Social and Emotional Development in Infancy

7: Moral Development

8: Sex-Role Development

9: Aggression, Altruism, and Self-Regulation

10: Developmental Psychopathology

11: Applied Developmental Psychology

12: The Life-Span Perspective in Developmental Psychology

13: Development Viewed in Its Cultural Context

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Life-Span Development and Behavior, Vol. 10
by Paul B. Baltes, David L. Featherman, Richard M. Lerner. 354 pgs.

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Life-Span Development and Behavior

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Affective Relationships and Their Lifelong Development

A Life-Span Perspective on Identity Formation: Developments in Form, Function, and Process

The Interpersonal Self in Life-Span Developmental Perspective: Theory, Measurement, and Longitudinal Case Analyses

The Impact of Divorce on Life-Span Development: Short and Long Term Effects

Child Development and Social Structure: a Longitudinal Study of Individual Differences

The Nature of Exceptional Performance

Migration, Family, and Career: a Life Course Approach

On the Utility of Structural Equation Models for Developmental Research

Methods for the Analysis of Event History Data: a Didactic Overview

Development, Time, and Catastrophe: an Alternate View of Discontinuity

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Life-Span Development and Behavior, Vol. 11
by David L. Featherman, Richard M. Lerner, Marion Perlmutter. 238 pgs.

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Psychobiological Attunement in Close Relationships

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The Psychological Impact of Children's Chronic Illness

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Traditional and Egalitarian Patterns of Parental Involvement: Antecedents, Consequences, and Temporal Rhythms

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On the Conceptualization of Context in Developmental Discourse: Four Meanings of Context and Their Implications

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Careers in Organizations: An Ecological Perspective

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Religious Development Across The Life Span: Conventional and Cognitive Developmental Approaches

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Application and Ethics in Developmental Psychology

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Life-Span Development and Behavior, Vol. 12
by David L. Featherman, Richard M. Lerner, Marion Perlmutter. 300 pgs.

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Parenting Across the Life Span: the Normative and Nonnormative Cases

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The Dynamics Between Dependency and Autonomy: Illustrations Across the Life Span

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Coping During Childhood and Adolescence: A Motivational Perspective

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Aging, Personality, and Social Change: the Stability of Individual Differences Over the Adult Life Span

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Wholesome Knowledge: Concepts of Wisdom in A Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Log-Linear Modeling of Categorical Data in Developmental Research

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Integrating Scholarship and Outreach in Human Development Research, Policy, and Service: A Developmental Contextual Perspective

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Human Development across the Life Span: Educational and Psychological Applications
by Ralph L. Mosher, Deborah J. Youngman, James M. Day. 288 pgs.

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This new collection of writings describes the recent thinking of psychologists and educators regarding interactive development across the spectrum of competency domains within the individual. Significant research efforts emphasizing innovations in qualitative methodology, pedagogical refinements, and therapeutic interventions--both remedial and prophylactic--are presented to illustrate recent applications of current life-span development theorizing.

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Introduction: An Historical Perspective of Life Span Development

Part I: Theory and Practice in Educating for Development

1: Cross-Domain Implications of Motor Development

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2: Emotional Development: a Constructivist Approach

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3: Literacy Development

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4: Mathematics: Learning and Knowing

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5: On the Development of Understanding Art

6: Metacognitive Reflection in University Students

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Part II: Theory and Practice in Counseling for Development

7: Clinical-Developmental Psychology

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8: Adolescent Girls' Development

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9: Meta-Development in Tenured Women Faculty

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10: Toward the Reconstruction of Masculinity

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11: Parental Development: Theory and Practice

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Part III: Educating for Moral and Religious Development

12: The Conceptual and Ethical Development of Teachers

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13: Moral Development in a Postmodern World

Notes

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14: Moral and Religious Judgment Research

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Suggestions for Further Reading

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Normality and the Life Cycle: A Critical Integration
by Daniel Offer, Melvin Sabshin. 460 pgs.

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Normality and the Life Cycle: A Critical Integration

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Preface

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Part I: The Life Cycle

1: Infancy: Perspectives on Normality

2: Middle Childhood: Normality as Integration and Interaction

3: Adolescence: Empirical Perspectives

4: Young Adulthood: Stages of Maturity

5: Middle Adulthood: Settling into the World— Person, Time, and Context

6: Late Adulthood: Love, Work, and the Normal Transitions

7: Aging: Biopsychosocial Perspectives

Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives

8: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Normality

9: Developmental Fusion of Intuition and Reason: a Metabiological Ontogeny

10: An Epidemiologic View of Mental Illness, Mental Health, and Normality

11: Normality from a Health Systems Perspective

Part III: Toward an Integrative Approach to Normality and the Life Cycle

12: Culture, Values, and Normality

13: Patterns of Normal Development

14: Implications and New Directions

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Promoting Cognitive Growth over the Life Span
by Milton Schwebel, Charles A. Maher, Nancy S. Fagley. 244 pgs.

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Chapter 1: Introduction: The Social Role In Promoting Cognitive Growth Over the Life Span

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Part 1: Conceptual Issues In Promoting Cognitive Growth

Chapter 2: Education For Thinking: What Can Psychology Contribute?

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Chapter 3: A Life-Span Perspective on Thinking And Problem-Solving

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Chapter 4: Negotiating Sense In the Zone of Proximal Development

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Chapter 5: Thinking And Feeling-- The Elephants

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Part II: Programs to Promote Cognitive Growth And Programmatic Issues

Chapter 6: Mediating Cognitive Processes to the Retarded Performer -- Rationale, Goals, and Nature Of Intervention

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Chapter 7: Active Work And Creative Thought In University Classrooms

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Chapter 8: Theory and Curriculum Development in Cognitive Education

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Chapter 9: Practical Perspectives On Changing Schools To Stimulate Cognitive Development

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Chapter 10: On Cognitive Development

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Life-Span Research on the Prediction of Psychopathology
by L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling, Nancy E. Miller. 310 pgs.

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Introduction: The Prediction of Psychopathology Across The Life-Span: The Value of Longitudinal Research

1: Long-Term Implications Of The Prenatal Endocrine Milieu For Sex-Dimorphic Behavior

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2: Early Soft Neurological Signs and Later Psychopathology

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3: Prospective Longitudinal Study of Firstborn Neonates

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4: Discussion of Chapters 1-3

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5: Discussion: Causal Models in Life-Span Research on Psychopathology

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6: Children at High Risk for Schizophrenia: Predictions From Infancy to Childhood Functioning

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7: Children at High Risk for Schizophrenia: Predictions from Childhood to Adolescence

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8: MMPI Profiles in Adolescence as Indicators of Achievement and Adjustment in Young Adulthood

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9: Methodological Issues in the Prediction of Psychopathology: A Life-Span Perspective

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10: Improving Prediction in Longitudinal Research: Equivalence, Developmental Stages,and Other Issues

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11: A Life-Span Developmental View of Childhood Predictors of Later Psychopathology: Commentary

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12: A 15- to 20-Year Follow-Up of Married Adult Psychiatric Patients

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13: Predictors of Poor and Good Outcome in Schizophrenia

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14: The Chronicity of Depression Among The Elderly

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15: Gender, Generations, and Well-Being: The Midtown Manhattan Longitudinal Study

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16: Discussion of Chapters by Clausen, Wilder, and Srole

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17: Life History Research in Psychopathology is Like a Dog Walking on Its Hind Legs or Discussion of Chapters 12-15

18: Depressive Symptoms as a Risk Factor for Mortality and for Major Depression

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19: Toward the Prediction of Dementias Arising in the Senium

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20: Prediction in the Onset and Detection of Huntington's Disease

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21: Discussion: Two Views of Time

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Lifespan Psychology: Theory and Application to Intellectual Functioning, in Annual Review of Psychology
by Paul B. Baltes, Ursula M. Staudinger, Ulman Lindenberger. 39 pgs.

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