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Your Kids Don’t Care That Their Favorite Athlete Did Steroids
Pacific Standard: A least, that’s always a part of the discussion that surrounds things like what happened last week, with the suspension of Ryan Braun, the star baseball player for the Milwaukee Brewers who vehemently
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Teens’ Self-Consciousness Has Biological Basis, Study Says
US News & World Report: Many teens are concerned about what other kids think of them, and this self-consciousness is linked with specific body and brain responses that appear to begin and peak in adolescence
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Why Teens Are So Self-Conscious
The Huffington Post: It’s not teens’ fault they’re so worried about what others think about them: Their brains just might be that way, according to a small new study. Researchers from Harvard University found that
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Why Self-Consciousness Peaks in Teenage Years
LiveScience: Some of the more awkward growth spurts that mark adolescence occur in the brain, and a new study suggests certain developmental changes might make teens ultra-sensitive to the gaze of other people. … “We
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Teens’ Self-Consciousness Linked With Specific Brain, Physiological Responses
Teenagers are famously self-conscious, acutely aware and concerned about what their peers think of them. A new study reveals that this self-consciousness is linked with specific physiological and brain responses that seem to emerge in
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Peer Pressure for Teens Paves the Path to Adulthood
The Wall Street Journal: New studies on peer pressure suggest that teens—who often seem to follow each other like lemmings—may do so because their brains derive more pleasure from social acceptance than adult brains, and
