Temperament: Theory And Practice - Paperbackby Stella Chess (Author) First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Back Jacket In 1956, Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas launched the pioneering New York Longitudinal Study, a systematic investigation into the concept of temperament that has been pursued to the present decade. The findings from this study that temperamental profiles of infants, children, adolescents, and adults show specific individual