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STUDY: Understanding Adolescence as a Period of Social-affective Engagement and Goal Flexibility
by Eveline A. Crone and Ronald E. Dahl
Downloadable PDF: Understanding Adolescence as a Period of Social-affective Engagement and Goal Flexibility
In this 2012 Nature article, the authors provide evidence that the changes in social and emotional processing during adolescence that underlie vulnerabilities such as risk taking can also be adaptive in the face of the rapidly changing social contexts of these years.