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Research ArticleOpen accessPhrase in the titleThe Role of Developmental Psychology to Understanding History, Culture and Social ChangeGeorg W. OesterdiekhoffDevelopmental psychology of the past generations has evidenced that the whole pre-modern humankind stood on pre-operational or concrete-operational stages. Only the modern humankind has also developed the fourth stage of human development, the adolescent stage of formal operations. Lew Vygotski was 1933 one of the first to earmark convincingly the connection of socialisation (school education) and cognitive development as a … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 4 · 29 Jan 2015 · 12,911 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleThe Rise of Abstract Thinking in History. The Developmental Approach Illuminates the Foundations of the Russian Socio-Historical PsychologyGeorg OesterdiekhoffLuria's empirical study in Uzbekistan and Kirgistan belongs to the core of the Russian School of Socio-Historical Psychology. The goal of this article is to examine that research again and to disclose their true fundamentals. All the tests Luria had used in Central Asia come from developmental psychology. However, neither Luria nor his followers fully understood the foundations and consequences … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 18, Issue 1 · 2 Apr 2022 · 8,134 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMetabolic Potential Versus Genome SizeAtanas Todorov Atanasov, Dimitar Todorov ValevAlberch, P. (1983). Development and Evolution: Embryos, Genes, and Evolution. The Developmental-Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change. Science, 221(4607), 257–258. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.221.4607.257 Andrews, C. B., Mackenzie, S. A., & Gregory, T. R. (2009). Genome size and wing parameters in passerine birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 276(1654), 55–61. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1012 Atanasov, A. T. (2005). The linear alometric relationship between total metabolic energy … …Physics International, Vol. 13, Issue 1 · 15 Jun 2022 · 7,229 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractReduction of Violence in the Course of Recent History Civilization Theory and Theory of Situational Logic in ComparisonGeorg W. OesterdiekhoffTen years ago, Steven Pinker demonstrated on a broad empirical basis that in the course of the history of the last centuries violence has massively decreased in purely quantitative terms. He bases his explanation of this phenomenon on Norbert Elias' theory of civilization, which claims that humankind has developed an ever decreasing willingness to use violence due to psychogenetic development. … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 18, Issue 1 · 26 Jan 2022 · 6,664 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Rise of the Physical Sciences in “Stricto Sensu” The Developmental Approach and the History of SciencesGeorg W. OesterdiekhoffJ. Piaget dedicated several books and articles on the psychogenetic reconstruction of the history of sciences. A couple of disciples followed Piaget´s ideas and reconstructed the history of single disciplines or of some scientific developments in terms of developmental psychology. They found a striking similarity between childish psychological stages and the sciences in their premodern period. Correspondingly, they also found … …Physics International, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 31 Oct 2017 · 8,636 accessesView PDF Cite