Beautiful Brains| The Committed Sardine - 0 views
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Aristotle concluded more than 2,300 years ago that "the young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine."
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"We're so used to seeing adolescence as a problem. But the more we learn about what really makes this period unique, the more adolescence starts to seem like a highly functional, even adaptive period. It's exactly what you'd need to do the things you have to do then."
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Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value the reward more heavily than adults do.
