Notes on contributors -- Preface / Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Martin J. Sliwinski -- Foundations -- Theoretical perspectives : a biopsychosocial approach to positive aging / Elliot M. Friedman and Carol D. Ryff -- Demography of aging: behavioral and social implications / Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Stacey B. Whitbourne -- Late life : a venue for studying the mechanisms by which contextual factors influence individual development / Denis Gerstorf and Nilam Ram -- Methodological issues in research on adult development and aging / Scott M. Hofer, Philippe Rast, and Andrea M. Piccinin -- Physical changes and health -- Physical exercise and health / Leslie I. Katzel and Gregory M. Steinbrenner -- Behavioral stability and change in health across the adult life cycle / Ilene C. Siegler and Adam Davey -- Cognition -- Processing speed / Judith Dirk and Florian Schmiedek -- Working memory / David P. McCabe and Vanessa M. Loaiza -- Memory and aging / Brent J. Small, Kerri S. Rawson, Sarah Eisel, and Cathy L. McEvoy -- Everyday cognition / Jason C. Allaire -- Personality -- Personality development in adulthood / Nicky J. Newton and Abigail J. Stewart -- Socioemotional perspectives on adult development / Jennifer Tehan Stanley and Derek M. Isaacowitz -- Personality and aging: cognitive perspectives and processes / Eileen Kranz Graham and Margie E. Lachman -- Abnormal aging -- Affective disorders and age: the view through a developmental lens / Jennifer R. Piazza and Susan Turk Charles -- Alzheimer?s disease and other dementias / Joshua R. Steinerman and Richard B. Lipton -- Personality disorders in later life / Daniel L. Segal, Richard Zweig, and Victor Molinari -- Assessment of older adults / Christine E. Gould, Barry A. Edelstein, and Lindsay A. Gerolimatos -- Social processes -- Self-regulation and social cognition in adulthood : the gyroscope of personality / Cory Bolkan and Karen Hooker -- Partners and friends in adulthood / Rosemary Blieszner and Karen A. Roberto -- Intergenerational relationships and aging / Kira S. Birditt and Elvina Wardjiman -- Retirement : an adult development perspective / Mo Wang -- Well-being and creativity -- Effects of remaining time for psychological well-being and cognition / Boo Johansson and Anne Ingeborg Berg -- Successful aging / Colin A. Depp, Ipsit V. Vahia, and Dilip V. Jeste -- Creative productivity and aging : an age decrement : or not? / Dean Keith Simonton -- Author index -- Subject index.

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