A new life stage called emerging adulthood now spans ages eighteen to late twenties

Evidence

Today, most psychologists agree that our longer lives combined with the challenges of an information-intensive society have further lengthened the time between childhood and adulthood. Many have settled on the notion of “emerging adulthood” to denote the years between eighteen and the late twenties as a new life stage: emerging adulthood is to the twenty-first century what adolescence was to the twentieth. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1441

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the term ‘emerging adulthood’ as the twenty-first-century analogue of twentieth-century adolescence.
• XREF: Foreshadows how surveillance capitalism exploits this newly elongated life stage. — connects to: Adult personality remains plastic well past age six, at least until age thirty-six; Adult authoritarianism shifts with education, parenthood, and era; Adult social attitudes remain changeable through new learning and experiences — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1107

Broader Connections

• Adult personality remains plastic well past age six, at least until age thirty-six #corroborates (0.80)
• Adult social attitudes remain changeable through new learning and experiences #corroborates (0.72) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1107
• Adult authoritarianism shifts with education, parenthood, and era #complicates (0.70)