Adolescents and Their Teenage Brains

摘要

In 1991,I presented a paper on the rationality and maturity of adolescents at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Seattle, Wash., USA. In the audience was Deanna Kuhn, then editor of this journal, who invited me to send her a manuscript based on my talk for publication in Human Development. The resulting article, 'Adolescent reasoning and adolescent rights' [Moshman, 1993], reviewed psychological research demonstrating that adolescents are distinct from children but not from adults in reasoning and decision making.