Investigates sequential steps in children's ability to represent another's visual perspective when it differs from their own perspective. (Author/SS)

An observer stared continually at each of 573 children who passed along a definable pathway in a large shopping center. Most infants did not make eye contact with the observer, the majority of toddlers established eye contact but did not gaze avert, and the preponderance of school-age children gaze averted. (Author/JMB)

Among 128 girls attending a private day school in Australia, it was found that changes in semantic aspects of language which occur at the formal operational stage appear to be related to whether a child is classified at the formal operational level on a pendulum problem. (RH)

Based on interviews with 65 adults, a theory was developed in which career is considered a vehicle for self-realization. Careers are viewed as a sequence of developmental stages: adjustment/reality shock, career success/self-affirmation, and reevaluation/congruence. (SK)

A life-course development perspective depicts stages of family development with tasks for each stage. It addresses the diversity of family relationships and illustrates how human development includes individual, generational, and historical time. (Contains 14 references.) (SK)

Deals with the changes in imagination that take place from childhood to adulthood. (CB)

Considers Greek myth of Oedipus and proposes an Oedipus cycle, in contrast to Freud's Oedipus complex, which represents not the unconscious passions of a small boy, but rather the awareness of the life cycle in the larger context of the succession of the generations and their mutual interdependence. (Author/NB)

Used stories told in response to Thematic Apperception Test to assess denial, projection, and identification in 90 hospitalized patients clinically diagnosed as having either anaclitic or introjective personality configurations. Results support assumption that denial, projection, and identification represent different levels on developmental…

Investigated the role of parental interaction styles on children's developing skill at providing contextual orientation in personal experience narratives. Eighteen monthly narratives were elicited from toddlers. The children's increasing skill at independently providing context about when and where was correlated with mothers' frequency of using…

Notes the tumultuous relationship between researchers and theorists who identify with either Jean Piaget or Lev Vygotsky. Argues that both theorists start from basically the same place in developing their contributions to the study of human development and that new and important theoretical contributions may be possible through a dialectical…

Traces Donald Super's theory of career development, studies modifications in Super's conceptualization of life stages, and notes changes in the definition and conception of the career construct. Includes 63 references. (JOW)

Speculates on gay and lesbian identity formation as individuals progress through Super's life stages. Notes that there is a dearth of empirical research on the impact of gay/lesbian identity development on the completion of career stages. (SK)

Examines differences in quality of effort and self-reported gains students make in academic and personal/social development. Results indicate that students invested more effort in writing, science applications and procedures, and college housing as freshmen, but invested more effort in the library and social interactions as seniors. (JPS)

Adolescence and old age are both stigmatized as pre- and postadulthood transition periods, each forming a biopsychosocial subculture. Age is one of eight cultural identity systems, with ethnicity, race, gender, family, vocation/avocation, religion, and health/disability. (SK)

Conducted year-long examination of student culture at small, private, four-year liberal arts college. Examined five phases of student life: pre-freshman; first-semester freshman; second-semester freshman, sophomore, junior; junior and senior; and exiting senior. Findings suggest that assessing which phase students are in may aid in tailoring…