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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."
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."
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