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Why DO teens do THAT? Raging hormones? Prefrontal cortex fully developed? Thrill Seeking? New research from The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania has released a report explaining Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development:
The authors propose an alternative model that emphasizes the role that risk taking and the experience gained by it play in adolescent development. This model explains much of the apparent increase in risk taking by adolescents as "an adaptive need to gain the experience required to assume adult roles and behaviors." That experience eventually changes the way people think about risk, making it more "gist-like" or thematic and making them more risk averse.
"Recent meta-analyses suggest that the way individuals think about risks and rewards changes as they mature, and current accounts of brain development must take these newer ideas into account to explain adolescent risk taking," said co-author Valerie Reyna, Ph.D., director of the Human Neuroscience Institute at Cornell University.
Romer[1] added, "The reason teens are doing all of this exploring and novelty seeking is to build experience so that they can do a better job in making the difficult and risky decisions in later life – decisions like 'Should I take this job?' or 'Should I marry this person?' There's no doubt that this period of development is a challenge for parents, but that's doesn't mean that the adolescent brain is somehow deficient or lacking in control."
[1] Daniel Romer, Ph.D
Daniel Romer, Valerie F. Reyna, Theodore D. Satterthwaite. Beyond stereotypes of adolescent risk taking: Placing the adolescent brain in developmental context. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017; 27: 19 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.07.007 (Javascript required).
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 28 2017, @06:00PM (4 children)
What's your alternative, one of the Abrahamic cannibal death cults?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @11:19AM (3 children)
> one of the Abrahamic cannibal death cults?
funny, I thought cannibal -> Cahna Baal -> priest of baal -> not abraham's god
also
2 tim. 1 "our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death"
calling this a death cult is a bit of a stretch
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:08PM (2 children)
"Cannibal" doesn't have that etymology, and shame on you for thinking you can go from a Semitic language to a Germanic one with no steps in between. Read: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cannibal [etymonline.com]
And no, the entire Christian milieu, all...what was it, 300+ feuding, mutually-damning denominations of you? ALL OF YOU are obsessed with death, bloodshed, suffering, and torture. Especially of people who aren't Christians. And Catholic Christianity is a literal cannibal cult, as they believe as an article of faith, a "mystery," that the wafer and wine literally become Jesus' flesh and blood.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:45PM (1 child)
Oh! the good old characterization of Christians, going on since 33 AD.
"They eat flesh!".
No matter the etymology, can we agree that cannibalism is about eating fellow humans? How many humans other than that Jesus guy are the incarnation of God? So, what would eating mere humans achieve for a Christian?
About the "mystery of the faith", it strikes me as odd that the hypothetical god should have trouble incarnating in object X vs object Y.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:10PM
Ironically, I don't think the Catholic idea of transubstantiation was part of the Apostolic ekklesia's creed. So the charge of cannibalism was false in the beginning, but made true perhaps sometime around the Council of Nicaea in 325AD? Or were there groups who believed that beforehand? Or was it something introduced to Catholic liturgy later on?
Regardless, you're ignoring every salient point I'm making here, and it's not making you or your religion look good. If I were Yahweh I'd throw you into Hell just for making me look bad.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...