Abstract
AbstractI will here pick up on a suggestion made by Greve (2023) in this journal, namely that a proper understanding of lifespan development means defending a non-reductionist psychology taking biological processes seriously, but without reducing psychology to physiology. I will here suggest and argue for the use of niche construction theory as a way of providing a psychological theoretical perspective on lifespan development broad enough to contain both naturalistic and normative elements in a non-reductionist manner.
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Aalborg University Library
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Philosophy,Applied Psychology,Anthropology,Communication,Cultural Studies,Social Psychology
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