Also called "psychological neotony". We now have the scientific name for Boomerism!
What is interesting also, is how economic needs tend to kickstart and maintain this immaturity:
In the mid-20th century, however, another force kicked in, due to increasing need for individuals to change jobs, learn new skills, move to new places and make new friends.
So the very activities that make us economically valuable - flexibility, the ability to learn on the job, create oneself anew - possibly are someof the same factors that contribute to psychological immaturity:
"People such as academics, teachers, scientists and many other professionals are often strikingly immature outside of their strictly specialist competence in the sense of being unpredictable, unbalanced in priorities, and tending to overreact.”
Charlton added that since modern cultures now favor cognitive flexibility, “immature” people tend to thrive and succeed, and have set the tone not only for contemporary life, but also for the future, when it is possible our genes may even change as a result of the psychological shift.
