The following discussion is a review of the eighth West Virginia University Biennial Conference on Life-Span Development. Kathleen A. McCluskey and Hayne W. Reese served as chairpersons for this eighth conference whose topic was the influence of normative history-graded events upon human development. The need to dimensionalize life events, the role of context, the need for theory to infer causes, and the role of metacognition in the design and implementation of research methodology were themes that emerged and served to unify the various theoretical and empirical presentations. In accordance with the purpose of the conference, these themes were utilized as interfaces between history-graded effects, the course of human development, and the process whereby researchers examine life-span development within a sociohistorical context.

Keywords:
Cohort, Conference, History-graded, Life events, Life span, Normative
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1983
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