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MIDMAC Members:
Brim Baltes
Bumpass Cleary Featherman
Hazzard Kessler
Lachman Markus
Marmot Rossi Ryff
Shweder
PROJECT
Officer:
Laurie R. Garduque
MIDMAC
Associates
Dr. Orville Gilbert
Brim - Social Psychology
Tel: 203-637-5589
midmac1@aol.com
President of Life Trends, Inc., and Director
of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on
Successful Midlife Development, Vero Beach, Florida. Dr. Brim is the author
and editor of a dozen books on human development. He is the former president
of both the Russell Sage Foundation and the Foundation for Child Development.
His research focuses on life span development, particularly on constancy
and change in personality from childhood through old age. His most recent
work was on the maintenance of ambition after success and failure. Currently
he is writing about the origins of the desire for fame and its transformations
during middle age. This work in progress is known as
The Fame Motive.
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Brim, G. (1992). Ambition: How we manage success
and failure throughout our lives.
New York, Basic Books.
Brim, G., & Kagan, J. (Eds.). (1980). Constancy
and Change in Human Development.
Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Brim, G., & Baltes, P. B. (Eds.). (1979-1984).
Life-Span Development and Behavior
(Vols. II-VI). New York: Academic Press.
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Dr. Paul B. Baltes - Personality
Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Lentzeallee 94, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Tel: 011 49 30 824-06256
or 255
baltes@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human
Development, in Berlin, and Professor of Psychology at the Free University
of Berlin. Dr. Baltes is interested in the life-span study of the mind
with a particular focus on adulthood and old age. His current research
program has three main components. In the first, Dr. Baltes and his colleagues
explore age-related limits of cognitive functioning and latent reserves
in the area of memory and other components of basic intelligence, by means
of cognitive intervention research. The second is on the development of
bodies of knowledge that reflect the special strengths of adulthood such
as wisdom. The third concerns behavioral and self-related strategies of
successful development during midlife and old age.
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Baltes, P. B. (1993). The aging mind: Potential
and limits. Gerontologist, 33, 580-594.
Baltes, P. B., & Staudinger, U. M. (1993).
The search for a psychology of wisdom. Current
Directions in Psychological Science 2, 75-80.
Baltes, P. B. (1991). The many faces of human
aging: Toward a psychological culture of old age.
Psychological Medicine, 21, 837-854.
Baltes, P. B., & Baltes, M. M. (Eds.). (1990).
Successful aging: Perspectives from the
behavioral sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
The Center for Psychology at Max Planck Institute
for Human Development, Berlin, which is staffed by about 25 full-time scientists
and support personnel, sponsors or co-sponsors several laboratories of
the Institute (about 150 total staff) in which psychological research on
life-span human development is conducted.
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Dr. Larry L.
Bumpass - Demography
Center for Demography and Ecology, University
of Wisconsin-Madison
4412 Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory
Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1393
Tel: 608-262-2182
bumpass@ssc.wisc.edu
Professor of Sociology at the University of
Wisconsin. Dr. Bumpass is past President, Population Association of America,
and co-director of the National Survey of Families and Households. His
work is on the social demography of family transitions and family living
arrangements including: patterns of cohabitation, marriage, contraceptive
behavior, fertility, marital disruption, and remarriage. A second theme
concerns the interrelationships among these family experiences and other
life course events such as educational attainments and family work patterns.
The third major perspective in his work is a concern with cross-cultural
comparisons of changing family patterns.
<> Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Bumpass, L. L (1990). What's happening to the
family?: Interactions between demographic
and institutional change. Demography, 27, 483-498.
Bumpass, L. L., & Sweet, J. (1992). Family
experiences across the life course: Differences
by cohort, education, and race/ethnicity. Proceedings,
The Peopling of the Americas,
3, 313-350, International Union for the Scientific
Study of Population (IUSSP).
Bumpass, L. L. (1994). A comparative analysis
of coresidence and contact with parents in
Japan and the United States. In Cho, L. J., &
Yada, M. (Eds.). Tradition and change
in the Asian family. Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
Center for Demography and Ecology, University
of Wisconsin-Madison. This interdisciplinary faculty research center for
demographic studies provides facilities and staff for a community of researchers
examining population processes and life course issues.
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Dr. Paul D. Cleary
- Medical Sociology
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard
Medical School
180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
02115
Tel: 617-432-0174
cleary@hcp.med.harvard.edu
Professor, Department of Health Care Policy,
Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cleary is a medical sociologist interested
in health behavior, patient assessments of health care quality, measurement
of quality of life, and relationships between clinician and organizational
characteristics and the quality of medical care. In his current studies,
he is investigating health related quality of life in a probability sample
of US adults, how organizational characteristics affect access to, and
the costs and quality of care for persons with AIDS, and variations in
treatment patterns and outcomes of persons over the age of 65 who have
been hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction. He also is Principal
Investigator of one of the centers recently funded by the Agency for Health
Care Policy and Research as part of the Consumer Assessment of Health plans
(CAHPS) study to develop survey protocols for collecting information from
consumers regarding their health plans and services.
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Cleary, P.D., Van Devanter, N., Steilen,
M., Stuart, A., Shipton-Levy, R., McMullen,
W., Theresa, R.F., Singer, E., Avorn, J., Pindyck,
J., (1995). A randomized trial
of an education and support program for
HIV-infected individuals. AIDS, 9,
1271-1278.
Guadagnoli, E., Hauptman, P.J., Ayanian,
J.Z., Pashos, C.L., McNeil, B.J., Cleary, P.D.,
(1995). Variations in the use of cardiac procedures
after acute myocardial infarction.
New England Journal of Medicine, 333(9), 573-578.
Wilson, I.B., Cleary, P.D., (1995). Linking clinical
variables with health-related quality of
life: conceptual model of patient outcomes. JAMA:
Journal of the American Medical
Association, 273(1), 59-65.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
The Department of Health Care Policy has an
interdisciplinary team of scientists, including sociologists, psychologists,
economists, statisticians, and clinicians. They are experienced in study
design and the development, design, and administration of surveys in community
populations as well as hospitalized and ambulatory patients.
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Dr. David L. Featherman
- Sociology
Institute for Social Research, University
of Michigan
426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan
48106-1248
Tel: 734-764-8364
feathrmn@isr.umich.edu
Director, Institute for Social Research at
the University of Michigan. Former President, Social Science Research Council,
New York. Dr. Featherman's current research is on the individual, interpersonal
and organizational influences that promote work careers of sustained high
productivity and socially acknowledged distinction beyond midlife. At the
center of this broad inquiry is a specific interest in job-related expertise
-- on how it is acquired, elaborated, maintained, and restored throughout
the entire worklife.
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Featherman, D. L., & Petersen, T. (1986).
Markers of aging: Modeling the clocks that
time us. Research on Aging, 8(3), 339-365.
Featherman, D. L., & Marks, N. (1990). Human
development and society: A
transactional relationship. Human Development, 33, 171-178.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
The Institute for Social Research, University
of Michigan, is one of the largest survey research institutions in the
world. Researchers from a number of disciplines provide the expertise to
design and conduct a wide range of projects relevant to major public policy
issues, and to ensure the scientific validity of their results. The ISR
staff includes over 100 Ph.D. scientists and a national field staff of
over 300 interviewers.
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Dr. William R.
Hazzard - Medicine
The Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake
Forest University
Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina 27157-1207
Tel: 336-713-8585
whazzard@wfubmc.edu
Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Internal Medicine and Director of the J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging of
the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University. Dr. Hazzard
works to assure continuity between studies of the aging process in midlife
and that in old age, especially as related to the precursors of disease
and disability in old age amenable to preventive intervention before old
age. He has concentrated upon the hormonal bases of the chronic diseases
of middle and old age, notably coronary heart disease and its modulation
by sex steroid hormone secretion and, in postmenopausal women, hormone
replacement therapy.
<> Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Hazzard, W. R. (1986). Biological basis of
the sex differential in longevity. Journal of the
American Geriatrics Society, 34, 455-471.
Hazzard, W. R., Haffner, S. M., Kushwaha, R. S.,
Applebaum-Bowden, D., & Foster, D. M.
(1984). Preliminary report: Kinetic studies on the modulation of
high-density
lipoprotein,
apolipoprotein, and subfraction metabolism by sex steroids
in a postmenopausal woman.
Metabolism, 33, 779-784.
Hazzard, W. R. (1983). Preventive gerontology:
Strategies for healthy aging. Postgraduate
Medicine, 74, 279-287.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
Department of Internal Medicine, the Bowman
Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University. This department and
the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in general, notably under the umbrella
of the J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging, is focusing upon preventive interventions
that will delay until advanced old age the onset of clinical diseases such
as atherosclerosis, diabetes, and arthritis.
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Dr. Ronald C.
Kessler - Medical Sociology
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard
Medical School
180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
02115
Tel: 617-432-3587
kessler@hcp.med.harvard.edu
Professor, Department of Health Care Policy,
Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kessler's research is concerned with the relationship
between stressful life experiences and mental health. He has been involved
in a series of studies of high risk stress situations, including studies
of job loss, widowhood, caregiving for a mentally ill relative, and exposure
to the AIDS virus. He has also been involved in studies of chronic role-related
stress. His current work is concerned with gene-environment interactions
in the relationship between stressful life events and mental illness, and
the analytic epidemiology of comorbid psychiatric disorders.
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Kessler, R. C., & Magee, W. J. (1994). Childhood
family violence and adult recurrent
depression. Journal of Health and Social Behavior,
35, 13-27.
Kessler, R. C., McGonagle, K. A., Nelson, C. B.,
Hughes, M., Swartz, M., & Blazer,
D. G.(1994). Sex and depression in the National
Comorbidity Survey II: Cohort
effects. Journal of Affective Disorders, 30, 15-26.
Kessler, R. C., McGonagle, K. A., Zhao, S., Nelson,
C. B., Hughes, M., Eshleman, S.,
Wittchen, H. U., & Kendler, K. S. (1994).
Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of
DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in the United
States: Results from the National
Comorbidity Survey. Archives of General Psychiatry,
51, 413-420.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
The Department of Health Care Policy has an
interdisciplinary team of scientists, including sociologists, psychologists,
economists, statisticians, and clinicians. They are experienced in study
design and the development, design, and administration of surveys in community
populations as well as hospitalized and ambulatory patients.
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Dr. Margie E.
Lachman - Personality Psychology
Department of Psychology, MS#062, Brandeis
University
415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts
02454-9110
Tel: 781-736-3255
lachman@brandeis.edu
Professor of Psychology, Brandeis University.
Dr. Lachman's research focuses on personality and cognitive development
in adulthood and old age. She is currently involved in research on the
developmental course of personal control and its relationship with physical
and mental health. One of her experimental studies uses a cognitive-behavioral
intervention to examine how self-efficacy, attributions, and control beliefs
are related to changes in physical behavior (exercise) and cognitive functioning
(memory) during midlife and old age.
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:L achman, M. E, James, J. B. (Eds.) (1997). Multiple
Paths of Midlife Development.
Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press.
Lachman, M. E, Lewkowicz, C., Marcus, A., &
Peng, Y. (in press). Images of midlife
development by young, middle-aged and elderly adults. Journal of Adult
Development.
Lachman, M. E. (Ed.). (1993). Planning and control
processes across the life span. East
Sussex, Lawrence Erlbaum. [Also published as a special issue of the International
Journal of Behavioral Development (1993).]
Lachman, M. E., Weaver, S. L., Bandura, M., Elliott,
E., & Lewkowicz, C. (1992).
Improving memory and control beliefs through cognitive
restructuring and
self-generated strategies. Journals of Gerontology,
Psychological Sciences, 47,
293-299.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
Life-Span Developmental Psychology Laboratory,
Brandeis University. In this research laboratory the focus is on personality
and cognitive development in adulthood and old age. The laboratory is staffed
by several post-doctoral researchers, one Master's level research associate,
and several graduate and undergraduate students. It maintains a comprehensive
file of personality tests.
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Dr. Hazel Rose
Markus - Social Psychology
Department of Psychology, Stanford University
420 Jordan Hall, Room 256, Stanford, California
94305
Tel: 650-723-4404
hmarkus@psych.stanford.edu
Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.
Dr. Markus' research is on the role of the self-concept and self-esteem
in one's own behavior and in the perception and understanding of others.
She has been continually concerned with the role of the sociocultural environment
and one's position within it in shaping the self and personality. Dr. Markus
is currently directing, with colleagues at the University of Michigan,
a study on the role of the self-concept -- present, past and possible --
in adulthood.
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Markus, H., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture
and the self: Implications for cognition,
emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224-253.
Markus, H., & Herzog, A. R. (1991). The role
of the self-concept in aging. In Schaie, K.
W., & Lawton, M. P. (Eds.). Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics.
11, pp.
110-143. New York: Springer.
Markus, H., & Cross, S. (1991). Possible selves
across the life span. Human Development,
34, 230-255.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
The Department of Psychology at Stanford University
includes separate laboratories in social, developmental, personality, cognitive,
and neuroscience approaches for the study of behavior. It is a center for
the development of theory and research in cognitive functioning from infancy
through older adulthood.
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Professor Sir
Michael G. Marmot - Medicine
Department of Epidemiology and Public
Health, University College London Medical School
1-19 Torrington Place, London WCIE 6BT,
England
Tel: 011 44 171 391-1717
michael@public-health.ucl.ac.uk
Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London, and Director
of the recently launched International Centre for Health and Society. Professor
Marmot heads an active epidemiology research program on social and cultural
determinants of health and ill-health. His work on cardiovascular disease
has led to strategies of prevention and health policy. He is director of
three large current interdisciplinary research programs: a longitudinal
study of 10,308 civil servants; a study of patterns of disease among immigrants
to Britain; and a study of 17,000 adults to monitor the nation's cardiovascular
health.
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Marmot, M. G. (1994, Fall). Social differentials
in health within and between populations.
Daedalus, Health and Wealth," 123,(4), 197-215. World Health Organization,
Geneva (1994). Cardiovascular disease risk factors: New areas for research.
Marmot M. G., Scientific Group, M. G. Marmot,
Chair McKeigue P. M., Miller, G. J., &
Marmot, M. J. (1989). Coronary heart disease in south Asians overseas:
A review.
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 42,7, 597-609.
Marmot, M. G., & Davey Smith, G. (1989). Why
are the Japanese living longer? British
Medical Journal, 299, 1547-1551.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
and International Centre for Health and Society, University College, London,
England. The research teams consist of medical epidemiologists, statisticians,
psychiatrists, nutritionists, social scientists, and computer programmers.
In December, 1994, the International Centre for Health and Society was
launched. This is an interdisciplinary research center for positive health,
with other academic departments from the University of London.
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Dr. Alice S. Rossi
- Sociology
34 Stagecoach Road, Amherst Massachusetts
01002-3527
Tel: 413-256-0308
asr@sadri.umass.edu
Harriet Martineau Professor Emerita of Sociology
at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Dr. Rossi has held appointments
at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, and Harvard
University, and is former president of the American Sociological Association.
Her research interests and publications have focused on sex and gender
roles, family and kinship, women in politics, intergenerational relations,
and biosocial science. Her recent major study was a five-year project on
parent-adult child relationships in a life course framework.
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Rossi, A. S. (Ed.) (1994). Sexuality Across
the Life Course. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press.
Rossi, A. S. (1993). The future in the making:
Recent trends in the work/family
interface. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 63, 166-76.
Rossi, A. S., & Rossi, P. H. (1990). Of human
bonding: Parent-child relations across the
life course. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
Social and Demographic Research Institute,
University of Massachusetts. Established to facilitate the research of
graduate students and faculty. Suite of 20 offices for all faculty working
on funded research, graduate students serve as research assistants, postdoctoral
fellows and SADRI support personnel.
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Dr. Carol D. Ryff
- Social Psychology
Institute on Aging, University of Wisconsin
2245 MSC, 1300 University Avenue, Madison,
Wisconsin 53706
Tel: 608-262-4855
ryff@ssc.wisc.edu
Professor of Psychology and Acting Director
of the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Ryff
studies psychological well-being across the adult life course. Her interest
is in how various dimensions of positive functioning (e.g., self-acceptance,
environmental mastery, autonomy, positive relations with others, personal
growth, purpose in life) change as people age, and as they go through particular
life transitions or life experiences (e.g., parenthood, community relocation,
work achievements). Her program of research also addresses how broad social
structural factors, such as class, culture, and gender, affect the experience
of well-being.
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Ryff, C. D., & Seltzer, M. M. (Eds.) 1996.
The Parental Experience in Midlife.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ryff, C. D., & Keyes, C. L. M. (in press).
The structure of psychological well-being
revisited. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Ryff, C. D., & Essex, M. J. (1991). Psychological
well-being in middle and later adulthood:
Descriptive markers and explanatory processes.
In Schaie, K. W., & Lawton, M. P.
(Eds.), Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics,
11, pp. 144-171. New York:
Springer.
Ryff, C. D. (1989). Happiness is everything, or
is it?: Explorations on the meaning of
psychological well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
57,
1069-1081.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
The Institute on Aging and Adult Life is an
interdisciplinary research and graduate training unit within the Graduate
School and the Medical School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Its
main function is to encourage and coordinate campus-wide efforts to promote
innovative interdisciplinary research about aging and the adult lifecourse.
The Institute administers clinical research in behavioral medicine, basic
studies of biological aging, historical and socio-demographic research,
and behavioral research on cognitive functioning and optimal aging.
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Dr. Richard A.
Shweder - Anthropology
Committee on Human Development, University
of Chicago
5730 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
60637
Tel: 773-702-1524
rshd@midway.uchicago.edu
Professor of Human Development and Chairman
of the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. Dr.
Shweder's areas of expertise include cross-cultural human development,
culture theory, comparative ethics and cultural psychology. In recent years
he has undertaken comparative moral development research in India and the
United States, with special attention to family life and social practices
(e.g., arranged marriage, no divorce, care of dependent parents, health
maintenance) on the East Coast of India. He has been examining the questions,
"What is universal, what is culture specific and what develops in moral
codes?"
Selected Key References Related to Research
Interest:
Shweder, R. A. (Ed.) (1998). Welcome to Middle
Age (And Other Cultural Fictions).
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Shweder, R. A. 'Why do men barbecue?' and other
essays in cultural
psychology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Shweder, R. A., & Sullivan, M. A. (1992).
Cultural psychology: Who needs it? Annual
Review of Psychology, 44, 497-523.
Shweder, R. A. (1991). Thinking through cultures:
Expeditions in cultural psychology.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Major Worksites and Research Laboratories:
Committee on Human Development, University
of Chicago. Founded in 1940, an interdisciplinary social science graduate
program and research center. The faculty consists of anthropologists, biologists,
psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists who have a focus
on life-span development, personality processes, and cross-cultural studies.
Also, in Orissa, India, since 1968, Dr. Shweder has been carrying out field
research in the Hindu temple town of Bhubaneswar.
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