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Book SynopsisAbout our authors
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1986 from the University of Virginia, and did 3 years of postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. From 1992 through 1998 he was Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri, where he taught a 300-student life span development course every semester. In the fall of 2005, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark; in 2010 and 2011 he was the Nehru Chair at Maharaja Sayajirao University in India; and in 2017 and 2018 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Bordeaux in France. His primary scholarly interest for the past 20 years has been in emerging adulthood. He coined the term, and he has conducted research on emerging adults concerning a wide variety of topics
Table of Contents
- A Cultural Approach to Human Development
- Genetics and Prenatal Development
- Birth and the Newborn Child
- Infancy
- Toddlerhood
- Early Childhood
- Middle Childhood
- Adolescence
- Emerging Adulthood
- Young Adulthood
- Middle Adulthood
- Late Adulthood
- Death and Afterlife Beliefs
