Questions about the nature of normative and atypical development in adolescence have
taken on special significance in the last few years, as scientists have begun to recast old …

Despite broad consensus about the effects of parenting practices on child development,
many questions about the construct parenting style remain unanswered. Particularly pressing …

▪ Abstract This chapter identifies the most robust conclusions and ideas about adolescent
development and psychological functioning that have emerged since Petersen's 1988 review. …

… The constrained time period of the Steinberg study leaves open the possibility that there
were pre-assessment differences in youngsters' rate of maturation (although not in their actual …

… Moreover, adolescents experience certain emotions, like hopelessness and romantic loss/love,
for the first time due to cognitive advances in functioning (Steinberg & Silk). It may be that …

Extant studies of age differences in cognitive processes relevant to risk taking and decision
making, such as risk perception and risk appraisal, indicate few significant age differences in …

The study on which this book is based also found striking and consistent ethnic differences
in student performance, differences that cut across socioeconomic groups. African-American …

… Laurence Steinberg draws on a trove of fresh evidence —including his own groundbreaking
research—that explains the teenage brain’s potential for change, rivaling that of the infant …

… and Developmental Psychology, a remarkable 34% focused on the parent–adolescent
relationship—twice the amount that focused on adolescents and their peers (Steinberg & Morris, …

… One possibility, for which we present evidence in another article (Steinberg, Dornbusch, &
Brown, in press), is that the school performance of African-American students is especially infiu…