[Xmca-l] Re: Development of adults

[Wolff-Michael Roth]

There is a recent study following people from age 14 to 77 suggesting
personality changes continuously into old age:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5144810/
Michael


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On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:30 AM, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> The first and second editions of our textbook had a chapter on aging beyond
> youth, Ulvi. It made the book too long for US quarter systems in
> universities and
> was cut as a result. The chapter begins with a thought from Milan Kundera
> that resonated with me when it was written 30 years ago and rings true to
> me approaching 80:
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> “We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the
> experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without
> knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married,
> and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for:
> the old are innocent children innocent of their old age. In that sense,
> man's world is the planet of inexperience”- Milan Kundera, *The art of the
> novel.*
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> I'll leave the question of whether this thought implies that development is
> a life long
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> process or not to the experts.
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> mike
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> PS- You might find the work of Paul Baltes and his students interesting. He
> was, in his way, a cultural-historical psychologist. I wonder, who is doing
> work on lifespan
>
> psychology in Russia these days?
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> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Ulvi İçil <ulvi.icil@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Can anyone propose one or two good books on develeopment beyond
> adolescence
> > please, a similar one to mike's development of children?
> > Thanks.
> > Ulvi
> >
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