# GENERATIONAL EFFECTS--PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 1991 · $127,254

## Abstract

The main goals of this research are to understand the influence on
individuals of the larger local, national, and world history that they have
lived through; to show how that history affects both collective memories
of the past and present attitudes and actions; and to replicate findings
on these issues over time and across societies in order both to establish
important generalizations and to discover the limits of these
generalizations and the modifications required in them by the
particularities of historical experience. The research is being done within
a life course perspective that tests the importance of adolescence and
early adulthood as a critical period for the shaping of memories,
attitudes, and actions throughout later development.

The research design calls primarily for open-ended questioning within
rigorous sample interview surveys of three types: a lengthy face-to-face
survey of a sample representative of the Metropolitan Detroit area, which
will allow intensive exploration of the connection of memories of the past
to present attitudes and actions, as well as a concern for the impact of
history at the local level; a shorter and more focused national telephone
survey of a cross-section of the American public, in order to generalize
past (1985) results on the importance of the intersection of personal and
national history during adolescence and early adulthood, and to repeat
selected questions from the previous face-to-face interview; and a series
of basic replications in a number of other countries (including Lithuania,
the Russian Republic, Japan, and Nicaragua), which differ greatly in
history and culture from the United States.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 3120745
- **Project number:** 1R01AG008951-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **SAM.gov UEI:** GNJ7BBP73WE9
- **Principal Investigator:** HOWARD SCHUMAN
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1991
- **Award amount:** $127,254
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 1991-02-01 → 1993-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3120745

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 3120745, GENERATIONAL EFFECTS--PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE (1R01AG008951-01A1). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/3120745. Licensed CC0.

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