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At the Department of Psychological Science at University of California, Irvine, she teaches in the areas of life-span development and motivational psychology. Heckhausen worked with Richard Schulz and formulated the life-span theory of control, their journal article was published in 1995 as A life-span theory of control. [2]
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]
Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; developed by Stanford psychologist Laura L. Carstensen) is a life-span theory of motivation. The theory maintains that as time horizons shrink, as they typically do with age, people become increasingly selective, investing greater resources in emotionally meaningful goals and activities.
Career development theories propose vocational models that include changes throughout the lifespan. Donald Super's model proposes a lifelong five-stage career development process. The stages are growth, exploration, establishment, maintenance, and disengagement. [21] Throughout life, people have many roles that may differ in terms of importance ...
Schaie spent much of his career studying psychological development from young adulthood to old age. [3] In 1986 he was a]ointed Evan Pugh Professor of Human Development and Psychology at Pennsylvania State University. He was later an Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.
Journal of Career Development is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Psychology. The journal's editor is Lisa Y. Flores (University of Missouri). It has been in publication since 1972 and is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with Curators of the University of Missouri.
Richard M. Lerner (born February 23, 1946) [1] is professor of Human Development at Tufts University, occupying the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science.Also at Tufts, he directs the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development.
Life-span psychology can be defined as the exploration of biological, cognitive, and psychosocial changes and constancies that occur throughout the course of life. [6] It has been presented as a theoretical perspective, proposing several fundamental, theoretical, and methodological principles about the nature of human development.