K. Warner Schaie
K. Warner Schaie · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychologist known for longitudinal research on cognitive aging
1928, Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) — 2023, United States
Germany · United States
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Schaie was a German-born American psychologist who founded the Seattle Longitudinal Study in 1956, one of the most important long-term investigations of how cognitive abilities change across adult life. His findings overturned the assumption of steady intellectual decline with age and grounded modern developmental psychology of aging. Born in Stettin, his family fled escalating Nazi persecution of Jews in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.
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Psychologist known for longitudinal research on cognitive aging
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