Wiser, older, and wider
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The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis
In 1950, the psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson, in a famous treatise on the phases of life development, identified wisdom as a likely, but not inevitable, byproduct of growing older. Wisdom arose, he suggested, during the eighth and final stage of psychosocial development, which he described as “ego integrity versus despair.” If an individual had achieved enough “ego integrity” over the course of a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Interactions
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1072-5520,1558-3449
DOI: 10.1145/3078625