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Acknowledgments; List of tables and figures; Introduction; 1.Selectivity and failure compensation as fundamental requirements of humanbehavior and development; 2. The life course as a context of action; 3.Primary and secondary control across the life span; 4. A model ofdevelopmental regulation across the life span; 5. Developmental goals asorganizers of developmental regulation; 6. Developmental regulation indifferent life-course ecologies; 7. Social comparisons as prototypicalstrategies in developmental regulation; 8. Conclusions and prospects forfuture research; References; Indexes.