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Harden, K. Paige; Quinn, Patrick D.; Tucker-Drob, Elliot M. – Developmental Science, 2012
Sensation seeking is associated with an increased propensity for delinquency, and emerging research on personality change suggests that mean levels of sensation seeking increase substantially from childhood to adolescence. The current study tested whether individual differences in the rate of change of sensation seeking predicted within-person…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Adolescents, Genetics, Personality Change
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Crone, Eveline A. – Developmental Science, 2009
Despite the advances in understanding cognitive improvements in executive function in adolescence, much less is known about the influence of affective and social modulators on executive function and the biological underpinnings of these functions and sensitivities. Here, recent behavioral and neuroscientific studies are summarized that have used…
Descriptors: Inferences, Cognitive Development, Autism, Brain Hemisphere Functions