Summary: This paper is aimed to add to the understanding of the recent history of geropsychology by use of an underutilized tool, i.e., bibliometrical analysis. First, we employ an “external perspective” by focusing the development of geropsychology ...
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Theodor Ziehen: A Commemoration on the 50thSummary:Objective: The 50th anniversary of the death of Theodor Ziehen was on December 29, 2000. As this occasion passed without fanfare, it is the authors’ intent to ...
The importance of the social milieu for adolescents with externalizing behavioral problems: Analysis of a psychiatric child and adolescent health care population in BremenAbstract. This study examines whether externalizing behavior problems are caused ...
Why Comparative Psychology Has Gone to the DogsAbstract: Developmental psychology describes ontogenetic processes that involve temporally persistent, sequential changes in human experience and behavior across the lifespan. In this ...
Abstract: Most developmental science occurs within a so-called WEIRD narrative: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. Although developmental psychology has long relied on cross-cultural research to enrich and inform ...
Conduct disorders in adolescents with an immigrant backgroundLarge-scale national survey have revealed an increased prevalence of aggressive behavior in adolescents with immigrant backgrounds. To date no studies have examined psychiatric health care ...
This paper presents bibliometrical results on the development of gerontopsychology in the last quarter of the 20th century. Analyses are based on the psychology literature documented in PsycINFO, covering mainly publications from the Anglo-American region,...
During the first third of the 20th century, William Stern (1871–1938) was a prominent contributor to the literature of developmental psychology. Many of his most important contributions, some of which were made in collaboration with his wife Clara Stern, ...
Implicit verb causality refers to the phenomenon that even minimal descriptions of interpersonal events (e.g., A dominates B, A amuses B) elicit causal attributions. Two experiments investigated whether children of different age groups are able to (a) ...
Abstract. Meta-analyses are an indispensable research synthesis tool for characterizing bodies of literature and advancing theories. One important open question concerns the inclusion of unpublished data into meta-analyses. Finding such ...
International collaborative research has the potential to advance developmental psychology in important ways. When basic science is conducted only in high-income, Western countries, the experiences of children and ...