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Laura L. Carstensen is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and professor of psychology at Stanford University, where she is founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity [1] and the principal investigator for the Stanford Life-span Development Laboratory. [2] Carstensen is best known in academia for socioemotional ...
t. e. Adult development encompasses the changes that occur in biological and psychological domains of human life from the end of adolescence until the end of one's life. Changes occur at the cellular level and are partially explained by biological theories of adult development and aging. [1] Biological changes influence psychological and ...
Sociology. Gerontology (/ ˌdʒɛrənˈtɒlədʒi / JERR-ən-TOL-ə-jee) is the study of the social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects of aging. The word was coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903, from the Greek γέρων (gérōn), meaning "old man", and -λογία (-logía), meaning "study of". [1][2][3][4] The ...
Becca Levy. Becca R. Levy is a professor of Epidemiology (Social and Behavioral Sciences) at Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She is a leading researcher in the fields of social gerontology and psychology of aging. [1] She is credited with creating the field of how age stereotypes, which are ...
Whitbourne's research program has examined a variety of issues related to people's experiences of identity over the lifespan. Topics include identity and self-consciousness in middle and later adulthood [17] the connection between national, ethnic, and personal identity in a multiethnic sample of young adults, [18] and the theoretical and methodological challenges associated with studying ...
Stage-crisis view is a theory of adult development that was established by Daniel Levinson. [1][2] Although largely influenced by the work of Erik Erikson, [3] Levinson sought to create a broader theory that would encompass all aspects of adult development as opposed to just the psychosocial. [4][5] This theory is characterized by both ...
Psychology and Aging is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Psychological Association. The current editor-in-chief is Elizabeth L. Stine-Morrow ( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ). It covers research on adult development and aging whether applied, biobehavioral, clinical, educational, experimental ...
Daniel J. Levinson (May 28, 1920 – April 12, 1994), a psychologist, was one of the founders of the field of positive adult development. Levinson is most well known for his theory of stage-crisis view, however he also made major contributions to the fields of behavioral, social, and developmental psychology. His interest in the social sciences ...