Lifespan psychology has always been associated with a family of scripts about development
and aging. An initial set of scripts included proposals about developmental contextualism at …

The author reviews reemerging coconstructive conceptions of development and recent
empirical findings of developmental plasticity at different levels spanning several fields of …

Linking biographical, social and historical change is a long-standing objective within social
psychology. Life-span research on human development, socialization and aging is renewing …

▪ Abstract The focus of this review is on theory and research of lifespan (lifespan
developmental) psychology. The theoretical analysis integrates evolutionary and …

Time is both an action resource and a source of meaning in human development over the
life span. The fading of residual life time in old age thus poses particular adaptive …

Lifespan psychology and life-course sociology concern themselves to a considerable extent
with separate areas of interest and separate lines of research. Life-course sociology aims to …

The role of historical change for individual functioning and development has long been a
central feature of life span psychological and life course sociological theory. However, the …

The life course paradigm has replaced child‐based, growth‐oriented (“ontogenetic”)
accounts of the person with models that emphasize the timing, social context, and …

The life course perspective originated with the recognition that an adequate understanding
of “lives through time” requires attention to the importance of social context. Since those …

This chapter focuses on the issue of selectivity in developmental regulation (DR) across the
human life span. The basic position put forward by the authors is that life-span …