Life-Span Development and Behavior

This closing installment of its series gathers research on the life-span approach to human development. Its contributors examine how people stay the same and how they change over time, how far their bodies and minds can be reshaped at different ages, and whether timely intervention at any stage can improve outcomes, which points toward an applied developmental science. The book also explores how lives diverge, how surrounding environments shape development, and how people's relationships with those environments shift, along with the links and breaks between age groups and developmental periods. Throughout, it argues that understanding human development requires combining biological, psychological, social, cultural, and historical perspectives.