Provides an alternative conception of postconventional moral development which fits existing data on late adolescent and adult moral judgment better than Kohlberg's higher stage descriptions. Data is from a longitudinal study of 26 undergraduates at Harvard. (Author/SS)

The five papers included in this article comprise the proceedings of a Gerontological Society symposium entitled "The life cycle, aging, and death: interdisciplinary perspectives." Each contributor considers this topic in the context of dialectical intersections from his own theoretical framework. (BD)

Examination of the way in which children conceive the development of animals shows that there are parallels among concepts of development with those of the periods of concrete operations and formal operations. The conception of development seems to advance further in the subsequent period of dialectical thought. (MS)