Adaptation to LifeHarvard University Press, 2012 M08 1 - 416 páginas Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. The originators of the program, which came to be known as the Grant Study, felt that medical research was too heavily weighted in the direction of disease, and their intent was to chart the ways in which a group of promising individuals coped with their lives over the course of many years. |
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... difficult and the most selfless task of a mentor : he allowed me to feel that a work that would have been impos- sible without his help was my own creation . The second is my wife , Caroline Officer Vaillant . Over the years she has ...
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Basic Styles of Adaptation | 73 |
Development Consequences of Adaptation | 193 |
Concluions | 327 |
References Cited | 376 |
A Glossary of Defenses | 383 |
The Interview Schedule | 387 |
The Rating Scales | 389 |