<p>Kagan and Lewis, op. cit.; Lewis, Kagan, and Kalafat, op. cit. In spite of this initial advantage which might be thought to lead, logically and inevitably to high-achievement investment, girls' socialization ends without realization of tWs early promise. J. Veroff, »Social Comparison and the Development of Achievement Motivation,« in C. Smith, ed., Achievement Related Motives in Children (New York: Russell-Sage Foundation, 1969); pp. 46-101, suggests that the period of optimal generalization of the achievement motive is early, about the age of four or five.