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Research shows that mindfulness meditation is related to, or affects, all of the following except:

Under conditions where an adolescent is not overly aroused or pressured, ____ year-olds can reason just as well as adults.

It’s not until age ____ that teens can reliably control their impulses when faced with peer pressure, and resist temptation to take risks because of the attraction of a tempting reward.

Adolescents are not as good at regulating impulses and making sound judgments when they are ____.

Grit, or the determination to finish a task, involves all of the following except: 

How do students in the U.S. compare, on academic participation and belongingness, to students in other countries?

The income inequality gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ has grown in virtually every country in the world since 1980. This gap isn’t just financial, it is psychological and neurobiological. People who can delay the transition to adulthood reap the benefits of a longer period of plasticity during which

Steinberg tells the story of trying to pick the right graduate students, to know who will succeed. He concludes the best graduate students are the ones

How are endocrine disruptors involved in changes in pubertal growth?

As we age from childhood to adolescence, the nucleus accumbens grows larger, thus enhancing our ability to