Abstract
As the aging of the American population became apparent, the field of human development underwent an interesting pendulum swing over the years, from an earlier concentration on childhood to a focus on the elderly. Gerontology emerged as a specialty long before middle age received research attention. Now new attention is being paid to middle age. Prominent in the immediate background of this scrutiny was the Kansas City Study of Adult Life in the 1950s and 1960s, led by psychologists from the University of Chicago. The first of their many publications was the 1964 book, Personality in Middle and Late Life, followed four years later by an anthology that remains even today the best collection of essays on the middle years.2
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