The Handbook of the Psychology of Aging has become the definitive reference source for information on the psychology of adult development and aging. The Fifth Edition provides comprehensive reviews of research on biological and social influences on behavior and age-related changes in psychological function. In addition to covering environmental influences on behavior and aging and gender differences in aging, new chapters in the Fifth Edition discuss wisdom, creativity, and technological change and the older worker. This handbook is an essential reference for researchers in adult development and gerontology and suitable as an advanced textbook for courses on the psychology of aging.
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"...this multiauthored text covers a wide range of topics and would be a useful reference for researchers and clinicans who have an interest in or work with older adults."
-JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY
Praise for the previous edition:
"...the Fourth Edition of this Handbook continues to make a valuable contribution to the ever-expanding gerontology knowledge base... the strength of the volume is in its well-chosen topics, and excellent reviews of current and essential historical research in each content area."
-JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY
"The fourth edition of this series offers comprehensive coverage of adult development and aging issues as related to psychological processes. Useful as a supplementary text for graduate students, this publication will also be of interest to research personnel, professionals, and all types of care providers for the aging."
-BIOSIS
"The contributors are among the most well respected and prolific in their respective areas, and the chapters are, as a group, well written."
-Jennifer M. Kinney in HANDBOOK OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING
"Birren...has produced an impressive work that should become an invaluable resource for the study of this growing segment of the worlds population. The 196 authors are experts in their fields."
-E.E. Nibley, American University
"Birren and Schaies Handbook of the Psychology of Aging series has long been an institution among students and researchers. I daresay that everyone in the field of psychology of aging has read chapters from these handbooks over and over again since the first volume was introduced in 1977. The Handbook is eagerly anticipated whenever a new edition is advertised by the publisher, and the chapters are considered to be authoritative, up-to-date reviews... How do Birren and Schaie remain on the cutting edge in their handbooks? First, the reviews have been taken seriously by researchers, and those who were chosen as authors took the task seriously as well. Second, different reviewers have been used for the same topic so that different perspectives could be presented... The international flavor remains.... This compact volume has again picked out current, cutting-edge issues in both resolved and unresolved areas... How does one ultimately assess the quality and impact of the 1996 Handbook? Believe it should be viewed as part of a series which may be the single most important contribution in the psychology of aging. As a single, stand-alone volume, the 1996 Handbook contains up-to-date reviews of pertinent areas in the psychology of aging."
-Leonard W. Poon, University of Georgia Gerontology Center, Athens, in GERONTOLOGIST
"Academic psychological and medical libraries will face a demand for all these titles. There is an increasing pubic awareness of the effects both of normal and of abnormal aging which may mean that public libraries face sufficient demand to consider buying books on this subject."
-Martin Guha in REFERENCE REVIEWS
"Five out of five stars! Imagine that the Encyclopedia Brittanica were written only about geriatrics and gerontology, and you have those stupendous work. This handsome set (is) a must for every medical library!"
-David O. Staats in DOODY
"All three handbooks underwent significant changes in content from the Third to Fourth Editions. Editors allocated more pages than previously to models, theories and methods... [The] Editors deliver fresh ideas... James Birren and his associates know how to produce handbooks... worth comparing to [Edmund Vincent] Cowdrys."
-W. ANDREW ARCGENBAUM, University of Michigan
-JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY
Praise for the previous edition:
"...the Fourth Edition of this Handbook continues to make a valuable contribution to the ever-expanding gerontology knowledge base... the strength of the volume is in its well-chosen topics, and excellent reviews of current and essential historical research in each content area."
-JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY
"The fourth edition of this series offers comprehensive coverage of adult development and aging issues as related to psychological processes. Useful as a supplementary text for graduate students, this publication will also be of interest to research personnel, professionals, and all types of care providers for the aging."
-BIOSIS
"The contributors are among the most well respected and prolific in their respective areas, and the chapters are, as a group, well written."
-Jennifer M. Kinney in HANDBOOK OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING
"Birren...has produced an impressive work that should become an invaluable resource for the study of this growing segment of the worlds population. The 196 authors are experts in their fields."
-E.E. Nibley, American University
"Birren and Schaies Handbook of the Psychology of Aging series has long been an institution among students and researchers. I daresay that everyone in the field of psychology of aging has read chapters from these handbooks over and over again since the first volume was introduced in 1977. The Handbook is eagerly anticipated whenever a new edition is advertised by the publisher, and the chapters are considered to be authoritative, up-to-date reviews... How do Birren and Schaie remain on the cutting edge in their handbooks? First, the reviews have been taken seriously by researchers, and those who were chosen as authors took the task seriously as well. Second, different reviewers have been used for the same topic so that different perspectives could be presented... The international flavor remains.... This compact volume has again picked out current, cutting-edge issues in both resolved and unresolved areas... How does one ultimately assess the quality and impact of the 1996 Handbook? Believe it should be viewed as part of a series which may be the single most important contribution in the psychology of aging. As a single, stand-alone volume, the 1996 Handbook contains up-to-date reviews of pertinent areas in the psychology of aging."
-Leonard W. Poon, University of Georgia Gerontology Center, Athens, in GERONTOLOGIST
"Academic psychological and medical libraries will face a demand for all these titles. There is an increasing pubic awareness of the effects both of normal and of abnormal aging which may mean that public libraries face sufficient demand to consider buying books on this subject."
-Martin Guha in REFERENCE REVIEWS
"Five out of five stars! Imagine that the Encyclopedia Brittanica were written only about geriatrics and gerontology, and you have those stupendous work. This handsome set (is) a must for every medical library!"
-David O. Staats in DOODY
"All three handbooks underwent significant changes in content from the Third to Fourth Editions. Editors allocated more pages than previously to models, theories and methods... [The] Editors deliver fresh ideas... James Birren and his associates know how to produce handbooks... worth comparing to [Edmund Vincent] Cowdrys."
-W. ANDREW ARCGENBAUM, University of Michigan
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The Handbook of the Psychology of Aging has become the definitive reference source for information on the psychology of adult development and aging. The Fifth Edition provides comprehensive reviews of research on biological and social influences on behavior and age-related changes in psychological function. In addition to covering environmental influences on behavior and aging and gender differences in aging, new chapters in the Fifth Edition discuss wisdom, creativity, and technological change and the older worker. This handbook is an essential reference for researchers in adult development and gerontology and suitable as an advanced textbook for courses on the psychology of aging.
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A very informative text about current and past research that relates to the ever-increasing geriatric population of the United States. One can take a look at factors that effect memory and cognition and other things that change as a person ages.
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primary submovement, environmental gerontology, cognitive training research, episodic memory functioning, innate moisture, behavioral aging, behavioral intervention research, elderly listeners, health utility, adult age differences, psychological gerontology, itudinal studies, sociophysical environment, older adult subjects, verbal recognition memory, movement variability, cognitive aging research, reaction time distributions, proximal outcome, differential emotions theory, tenacious goal pursuit, postformal operations, factorial invariance, attentive brain, attentional inhibition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, San Diego, Cambridge University Press, The Gerontologist, American Psychological Association, United States, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Experimental Aging Research, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Archives of Neurology, Thousand Oaks, Brain Research, African Americans, Oxford University Press, Powell Lawton, Carol Magai, Hearing Research, Journal of Speech, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lawrence Erlbaum, North Holland, Elsevier Science, Howard Leventhal New!
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primary submovement, environmental gerontology, cognitive training research, episodic memory functioning, innate moisture, behavioral aging, behavioral intervention research, elderly listeners, health utility, adult age differences, psychological gerontology, itudinal studies, sociophysical environment, older adult subjects, verbal recognition memory, movement variability, cognitive aging research, reaction time distributions, proximal outcome, differential emotions theory, tenacious goal pursuit, postformal operations, factorial invariance, attentive brain, attentional inhibition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, San Diego, Cambridge University Press, The Gerontologist, American Psychological Association, United States, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Experimental Aging Research, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Archives of Neurology, Thousand Oaks, Brain Research, African Americans, Oxford University Press, Powell Lawton, Carol Magai, Hearing Research, Journal of Speech, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lawrence Erlbaum, North Holland, Elsevier Science, Howard Leventhal New!
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