From Unruly Child to Political Protester and Promoter of an Ecology-Minded Concept of Development
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rainer K. Silbereisen was born in Germany in 1944. He was Professor of Psychology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena (Germany) and President of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development. His research program focused on complex ecology-biology-person interactions. Ecology was hypothesized to be a major developmental force. Maladjusted behaviors, such as antisocial behavior during adolescence, were investigated in order to understand their putative constructive role in the development of entrepreneurial behavior during adulthood. Longitudinal studies were conducted on a wide range of topics, such as substance use and delinquency during adolescence, variation in the timing of psychosocial transitions, the impact of social change on adjustment and development, psychological dimensions of entrepreneurship and civic participation, biobehavioral aspects of adolescent development, and acculturation among immigrants. These studies had an explicit cross-national and cross-cultural format. The prevention of maladjustment and scientific advice for policy makers were important dimensions of this research program. With longitudinal studies, Silbereisen examined the effects of German unification and of globalization on adjustment in adulthood. This provided opportunities to investigate how individuals cope with new challenges to their developmental tasks as the result of gross changes in ecological opportunity structures.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".