Aging: A Life-Span View

by Robert V. Kail

How did your life begin? How did you go from a single cell—about the size of the period at the end of a sentence in this text—to the fully grown, complex adult person you are today? Will you be the same or different by the time you reach late life? How do you influence other people’s lives? How do they influence yours? How do the various roles you have throughout life—child, teenager, partner, spouse, parent, worker, grandparent—shape your development? How do we deal with our own and others’ deaths?

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Published January 1, 2010

About the author

Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Kail has been a faculty member in Purdue's Department of Psychological Sciences since 1979. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Kail has 65 publications in refereed journals, and he has written five textbooks. He is editor of Psychological Science and the incoming editor of Child Development Perspectives. Previously he served as editor of Advances in Child Development and Behavior and the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Alternative Names
Kail, Robert, 1950-
Kail, Robert V.
Kail, Robert V., Jr.