Adult Development

This volume brings together the works of distinguished authors in the field of postformal-operational cognitive, social, and perceptual development to examine the models and methodology used to investigate postformal thought. The contributors examine both Piagetian and nonstructural models of adult cognitive development, explore the measurement and comparison of cognitive development in adults, and assess the research and theory of adult reasoning in the moral domain. A concluding chapter investigates critical evaluations of postformal research.

MICHAEL L. COMMONS is Lecturer and Research Associate in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and Director of the Dare Institute.CHERYL ARMON is Chairperson of the Undergraduate Program at Antioch University, Los Angeles.LAWRENCE KOHLBERG was Professr of Education and Social Psychology at Harvard University and Director of the Center for Moral Education and Development before his death in January, 1987.FRANCIS A. RICHARDS is Evaluation and Testing Specialist in the Division of Management Information and Education of the Rhode Island Department of Education.TINA A. GROTZER is Research Associate at the Dare Institute and Coordinator of the Arlington, Massachusetts Public Schools' Challenge and Enrichment Programs.JAN D. SINNOTT is Professor of Psychology at Towson State University and affiliated with the National Institute on Aging (NIH).