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Peer reviewedWhiting, Bruce G. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1988
Research reports are reviewed which illustrate the close ties between creativity and entrepreneurship. Comparisons of the characteristics and behavior typical of creative individuals and entrepreneurial individuals indicate the existence of striking similarities. (JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Correlation, Creative Development
Peer reviewedLachman, Margie E.; Burack, Orah R. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1993
Presents an overview of the topics of planning and control to provide a context for the articles in this issue of the journal. Considers development across the life span, subgroup variations, and correlates. Also explores potential linkages between planning and control. (MM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Decision Making
Peer reviewedGottlieb, Gilbert – Developmental Psychology, 1991
In contrast to earlier notions, a systems view of an organism's development sees genes as only one component in a hierarchy of influences that produces finished traits and differentiation. Developmental canalization proceeds from genes, behavior, and environment as well as from the coaction of these factors. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedTurkheimer, Eric; Gottesman, Irving I. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Notes that psychologists' interest in behavioral development concerns individual differences in behavior. Explores complexities of genetic and environmental determination of development, and of canalization. Intelligence is considered as an example of the canalization of human behavior. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences, Experience
Peer reviewedLoevinger, Jane – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1979
Evidence for the construct validity of Washington University's Sentence Completion Test of Ego Development is reviewed. The test has adequate validity for research purposes but is neither valid nor reliable enough to be used as a clinical instrument without further confirming data. (BH)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Behavior Development, Behavior Rating Scales, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedCharlesworth, William R. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1991
Constructs a model applying evolutionary biology theory to the development of children's sense of justice. Maintains that competition for scarce resources causes many of the moral problems involving justice. Examines the place of emotions in the sense of justice. Hypothesizes rules of justice that predate cultural history. (CH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research


