Research and Events Digest - June 2017

Research and Events Digest
June 2017

​Welcome to our first Research and Events Digest. Below you will find information about forthcoming events in the fields of adult development and ageing, read interviews from leading researchers, and see links to recent articles in the area. We hope to feature your research in future newsletters and will be in touch about how to submit your work for inclusion in the next newsletter.
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Yours sincerely,
Dr Oliver Robinson
President, ESRAD

Forthcoming Events

Conferences

The Faculty of Psychology of Older People (FPOP)

• 12 July 2017 - 13 July 2017, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Durham
• Conference theme: Stories and narratives in mental health services, harnessing their power for the wellbeing of all who use and work in mental health services for Older People >>>

Association of Adult Development and Aging

• July 14-15 2017, New York City
• Conference theme: Adult Lifespan Resiliency - Reframing perceptions and realizing new possibilities >>>

Society for the Study of Emerging Adulhood Biannual Conference

• 2-4 November 2017, Washington D.C.
• Conference theme: Emerging Adults as Change-Makers Around the World >>>

European Coference on Developmental Psychology

• 29 August - 1 September 2017, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Society for Research in Adult Development Announces the 32nd Annual Symposium

• 16 June - 17 June 2017 Salem State University, Massachusetts >>>

Integral European Conference, Hungary

• 22-27 May, 2018, Siofok, Hungary >>>

Research

Interview Series: Perspectives

​ESRAD has begun an interview series, Perspectives. In this ongoing series, we will be interviewing researchers and practitioners who've made remarkable contributions in the field of adult development. In this newsletter, we interviewed Drs. Leida Schuringa who's been helping war refugees integrate into the Netherlands, and Dr. Monika Ardelt who is a world-known expert in wisdom studies.

Perspectives on immigration:
An interview with Dr. Leida Schuringa >>>

​Perspectives on wisdom:
An Interview with Dr. Monika Ardelt >>>

Featured Publications

Our featured publications are drawn from a 2016 special edition of the Behavioral Development Bulletin academic journal on the topic of adult development in relation to the social sciences. All articles were based on talks given at a past ESRAD symposium on this theme.

• Adhikari, D. (2016). Exploring the differences between social and behavioral science. Behavioral Development Bulletin, 21(2), 128. >>>
• Featherston, K. G., Chen, S. J., Toth-Gauthier, M., Day, J. M., Herman, P., Laverdeur, R., ... & Tyberghein, M. (2016). An analysis of the Verbal Comprehension Index of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Fourth Edition (WAIS–IV) using the Model of Hierarchical Complexity (MHC): Why might stage be a better measure of “smarts” than verbal IQ?. Behavioral Development Bulletin, 21(1), 50. >>>
• Fein, E., & Jordan, T. (2016). Adult development meets social sciences—Reviewing the state of the art. Behavioral Development Bulletin, 21(2), 136. >>>
  
• Giri, S. (2016). Cross-cultural homogeneity in social perspective taking: China and the United States. Behavioral Development Bulletin, 21(2), 176. >>>
  
• Hamer, R., & van Rossum, E. J. (2016). Six languages in education—looking for postformal thinking. Advance online publication. >>>
  
• Owens, C. J. (2016). Toward an analysis of concepts and solutions to training concepts. Behavioral Development Bulletin, 21(1), 63. >>>
  
• Reams, J. (2016). An overview of adult cognitive development research and its application in the field of leadership studies. Behavioral Development Bulletin. Advance online publication.  >>>

More papers on adult development can be found in the Behavioral Development Bulletin archives.>>>

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