Words to the wise about wisdom? A commentary on Ardelt's critique of Baltes

Human Development

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 286-289

  Sternberg, Robert J ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Box 208358 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Balance theory of wisdom; Explicit wisdom theory; Implicit wisdom theory

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NOTE; PERFORMANCE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; SCIENCE;

EID: 10844247882     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079155     Document Type: Note

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