Developmental Psychology Arena

Growing Older

Perspectives on LGBT Aging

• Edited by James T. Sears

LGBT older adults experience issues and challenges that are unique, including institutional heteronormativity, heterosexism in organizations, and homophobia among caregivers and social service providers. This...

Published June 22nd 2009 by Routledge.

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Ageing, Cognition, and Neuroscience

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

• Edited by Soledad Ballesteros, Lars Goran-Nilsson, Patrick Lemaire

Developed nations are experiencing enormous increases in the number of elderly people in the population. Ageing is a universal complex multifaceted process that profoundly affects...

Published June 4th 2009 by Psychology Press.

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Episodic Memory and Healthy Ageing

A Special Issue of Memory

• Edited by Chris Moulin, Moshe Naveh-Benjamin, Celine Souchay

A characteristic feature of the aging process is a decline in episodic memory, that form of memory related to a particular time and place in...

Published March 24th 2009 by Psychology Press.

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Cognitive Gerontology: Cognitive Change in Old Age

A Special Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A

• Edited by Patrick Rabbitt

The worldwide demographic explosion in numbers of older people makes the study of cognitive change in old age of obvious practical interest. It is also...

Published January 24th 2008 by Psychology Press.

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The Handbook of Aging and Cognition

Third Edition

• Edited by Fergus I. M. Craik, Timothy A. Salthouse

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues...

Published October 9th 2007 by Psychology Press.

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Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes

• Edited by Adrian Tomer, Grafton T. Eliason, Paul T. P. Wong

Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes provides: an in-depth examination of death attitudes, existentialism, and spirituality and their relationships; a review of the major...

Published July 31st 2007 by Psychology Press.

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Aging and Work in the 21st Century

• By Kenneth S. Shultz, Gary A. Adams

The aging of baby boomers, along with the predicted decrease of the available labor pool, will place increased scrutiny and emphasis on issues relating to...

Published February 22nd 2007 by Psychology Press.

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Mild Cognitive Impairment

International Perspectives

• Edited by Holly A. Tuokko, David F. Hultsch

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) has been identified as an important clinical transition between normal aging and the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Since treatments...

Published September 14th 2006 by Psychology Press.

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The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior

• By John F. Dovidio, Jane Allyn Piliavin, David A. Schroeder, Louis A. Penner

Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century. Building...

Published April 25th 2006 by Psychology Press.

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Approaches to Discourse in Dementia

• By Jacqueline A. Guendouzi, Nicole Muller

The qualitative analysis of naturally occurring discourse in neurogenic communication disorders, specifically in dementia studies, has experienced recent burgeoning interest from wide-ranging disciplines. This multidisciplinarity...

Published November 16th 2005 by Psychology Press.

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