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Commentary

Human Development 1997; 40: 96 -101

A New Generation: New Intellectual Opportunities

James Youniss

The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.,

USA

These comments on the publication of the new handbook are written from the perspective of a member of the in-between generation. In-betweeners were born about the time Murchison edited the first and second handbooks in the 1930s. They spent childhood watching newreels of World War II at movie houses featuring ‘cowboy’ serials on Saturday afternoons. Their professional education straddled two psychological eras. It began just as the ‘experimental psychology’ paradigm was ending its domination and it was completed as new alternatives were coming into view. (...)

Had they been born just a few years earlier, they would have been part of that powerful and long-lasting generation that entered the military

during World War II and filled the universities immediately after the war. This unusual cohort held leadership in the discipline of psychology in general and developmental psychology, in particular, for several decades. (...)

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