Adolescence

A topic within Developmental Psychology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking

Laurence Steinberg

Argues adolescent risk-taking results from a developmental gap between an early-maturing socioemotional system that responds strongly to reward and a still-immature cognitive control system, rather than from ignorance of the risks.

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Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education

G. Stanley Hall

The founding text of adolescence as a distinct developmental period, arguing it is inherently a time of storm and stress driven by biological recapitulation - a claim later developmental research has substantially undermined.

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A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking

Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education

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