Generativity means feeling productive and making a positive impact on the world. Stagnation is feeling stuck, unproductive, and lacking purpose. In middle adulthood, people often reflect on their ...

Abstract: Complex systems increasingly include embedded digital technologies that interact with and are constrained by physical components and systems. Although these systems play a central role in ...

Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from research labs to everyday life, powering everything from voice assistants and autonomous systems to advanced language models that generate human-like ...

Meaningful activities are “a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age,” the Bible notes in Ruth 4:15. Without them, we literally have nothing to live for. In his 80s, “Uncle Leo” Hurst ...

Older adults who exhibit concern for guiding and contributing to future generations, a quality known as generativity, are more likely to enjoy psychological well-being and lead fulfilling lives, ...

This issue explores how different theoretical traditions have conceptualized the generative capacities of language and thought, and how these ideas intersect with contemporary developments in AI. We ...

Why are you running for this office? Erik Erikson had a theory of psychological development that he called, “generativity vs. stagnation” and I believe that I’m in the generativity stage, where ...

As generational gaps grow wider, those living in their old age are getting a bad rap. Younger generations see baby boomers as disgruntled, quick to anger, and hard to deal with. However, not everyone ...