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Clinical adolescent psychology: what it is, and what it needs to beLaurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 70:124-8. 2002....
Age differences in resistance to peer influenceLaurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Dev Psychol 43:1531-43. 2007..Middle adolescence is an especially significant period for the development of the capacity to stand up for what one believes and resist the pressures of one's peers to do otherwise...
Age differences in future orientation and delay discountingLaurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Child Dev 80:28-44. 2009..Future studies should distinguish between future orientation and impulse control, which may have different neural underpinnings and follow different developmental timetables...- Adolescent development and juvenile justiceLaurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 5:459-85. 2009..Taken together, the lessons of developmental science offer strong support for the maintenance of a separate juvenile justice system in which adolescents are judged, tried, and sanctioned in developmentally appropriate ways... - Are adolescents less mature than adults?: minors' access to abortion, the juvenile death penalty, and the alleged APA "flip-flop"Laurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Am Psychol 64:583-94. 2009.... - Cognitive and affective development in adolescenceLaurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 9:69-74. 2005..Taken together, these developments reinforce the emerging understanding of adolescence as a critical or sensitive period for a reorganization of regulatory systems, a reorganization that is fraught with both risks and opportunities... - Risk taking in adolescence: what changes, and why?Laurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021:51-8. 2004..Interventions should begin from the premise that adolescents are inherently more likely than adults to take risks, and should focus on reducing the harm associated with risk-taking behavior... - Less guilty by reason of adolescence: developmental immaturity, diminished responsibility, and the juvenile death penaltyLaurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Am Psychol 58:1009-18. 2003..The uniqueness of immaturity as a mitigating condition argues for a commitment to a legal environment under which most youths are dealt with in a separate justice system and none are eligible for capital punishment... - A dual systems model of adolescent risk-takingLaurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Dev Psychobiol 52:216-24. 2010..Heightened vulnerability to risk-taking in middle adolescence may be due to the combination of relatively higher inclinations to seek rewards and still maturing capacities for self-control... - Age differences in sensation seeking and impulsivity as indexed by behavior and self-report: evidence for a dual systems modelLaurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Dev Psychol 44:1764-78. 2008.... - Is adolescence-onset antisocial behavior developmentally normative?Glenn I Roisman
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Dev Psychopathol 22:295-311. 2010..Findings generally replicated across sex and did not vary as a function of whether antisocial behavior groups were defined using T-scores normed within sex or identified using an empirically driven grouping method applied to raw data... - The developmental significance of adolescent romantic relationships: parent and peer predictors of engagement and quality at age 15Glenn I Roisman
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Youth Adolesc 38:1294-303. 2009..Results reconcile contrasting views of the origins of romantic relationship engagement and quality and the positive versus negative developmental salience of romantic relationships in adolescence... - Predictors and sequelae of trajectories of physical aggression in school-age boys and girlsSusan B Campbell
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Dev Psychopathol 22:133-50. 2010..Patterns and levels of aggression in boys and girls are discussed as are their predictors and consequences... - Arrested development: the effects of incarceration on the development of psychosocial maturityJulia Dmitrieva
Department of Psychology, Frontier Hall, 2155 South Race Street, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Dev Psychopathol 24:1073-90. 2012..Furthermore, youths who perceived their incarceration setting as unsafe evinced a decline in temperance. Future research and policy implications are discussed... - Peers increase adolescent risk taking by enhancing activity in the brain's reward circuitryJason Chein
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Dev Sci 14:F1-10. 2011..Results suggest that the presence of peers increases adolescent risk taking by heightening sensitivity to the potential reward value of risky decisions... - Adolescents' exposure to sexy media does not hasten the initiation of sexual intercourseLaurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dev Psychol 47:562-76. 2011..With such controls for differential selection in place, we found no evidence that the initiation of sexual intercourse is hastened by exposure to sexy media... - Understanding the school outcomes of juvenile offenders: an exploration of neighborhood influences and motivational resourcesHe Len Chung
Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, USA
J Youth Adolesc 40:1025-38. 2011..Implications are discussed in the context of promoting academic success among juvenile offenders, specifically, and for understanding pathways to healthy adjustment, more generally... - Sex differences in the longitudinal relations among family risk factors and childhood externalizing symptomsIlana Blatt-Eisengart
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Dev Psychol 45:491-502. 2009.... - Depressive symptoms and health-related risk-taking in adolescenceC Rylann Testa
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 40:298-305. 2010..Therefore, adolescents experiencing depressive symptoms, especially those reporting hopelessness, should be considered at jeopardy for a variety of health-related risk-taking behaviors... - Does adolescent alcohol and marijuana use predict suppressed growth in psychosocial maturity among male juvenile offenders?Laurie Chassin
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Box 871104, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 24:48-60. 2010.... - Peer influence on risk taking, risk preference, and risky decision making in adolescence and adulthood: an experimental studyMargo Gardner
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Dev Psychol 41:625-35. 2005..These findings support the idea that adolescents are more inclined toward risky behavior and risky decision making than are adults and that peer influence plays an important role in explaining risky behavior during adolescence... - Child-care history, classroom composition, and children's functioning in kindergartenJulia Dmitrieva
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Pholadelphia, PA 10122, USA
Psychol Sci 18:1032-9. 2007..g., fighting and arguing) and higher academic achievement when schooled in classrooms with more peers who had extensive child-care histories... - Age differences in strategic planning as indexed by the tower of LondonDustin Albert
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Child Dev 82:1501-17. 2011..Findings support an emerging picture of late adolescence as a time of continuing improvement in planned, goal-directed behavior... - Early family and child-care antecedents of awakening cortisol levels in adolescenceGlenn I Roisman
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Child Dev 80:907-20. 2009.... - "Peer influence on risk taking, risk preference, and risk decision making in adolescence and adulthood: An experimental study": Correction to Gardner and Steinberg (2005)Margo Gardner
Department of Psychology, Temple University
Dev Psychol 48:589. 2012..and Risky Decision Making in Adolescence and Adulthood: An Experimental Study" by Margo Gardner and Laurence Steinberg (Developmental Psychology, 2005[Jul], Vol 41[4], 625-635)... - Should the science of adolescent brain development inform public policy?Laurence Steinberg
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Am Psychol 64:739-50. 2009..He cautions, however, that nonexperts may be unduly swayed by neuroscience evidence and thus that such evidence should be presented with special care... - Work group IV: increasing the capacity of parents, families, and adults living with adolescents to improve adolescent health outcomesLaurence Steinberg
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Adolesc Health 31:261-3. 2002 - The competence-related abilities of adolescent defendants in criminal courtNorman Poythress
University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Law Hum Behav 30:75-92. 2006..These findings suggest that as a group, 16-17-year-old Direct File adolescents do not have significant deficits in competence-related abilities due to age or immaturity... - Neural mechanisms of resistance to peer influence in early adolescenceMarie Helene Grosbras
Brain and Body Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 27:8040-5. 2007..These findings suggest that the probability of resisting peer influence depends on neural interactions during observation of emotion-laden actions... - Legal, individual, and environmental predictors of court disposition in a sample of serious adolescent offendersElizabeth Cauffman
Psychology and Social Behavior, 3355 Social Ecology II, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Law Hum Behav 31:519-35. 2007.... - Parental influences on adolescent problem behavior: revisiting Stattin and KerrAnne C Fletcher
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 27412 6170, USA
Child Dev 75:781-96. 2004..Analyses are framed and findings are discussed with reference to recent work by Stattin and Kerr (2000; Kerr & Stattin, 2000) on the measurement and meaning of parental monitoring... - Relations between neighborhood factors, parenting behaviors, peer deviance, and delinquency among serious juvenile offendersHe Len Chung
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Dev Psychol 42:319-31. 2006.... - Juveniles' competence to stand trial: a comparison of adolescents' and adults' capacities as trial defendantsThomas Grisso
Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
Law Hum Behav 27:333-63. 2003..Implications of these results for policy and practice are discussed, with an emphasis on the development of legal standards that recognize immaturity as a potential predicate of incompetence to stand trial...
Research Grants
- Ph IV NICHD Study of Early ChildCare & Youth Developme*Laurence Steinberg; Fiscal Year: 2007..These data, in concert with data from earlier Phases, will be used to test four models of developmental processes. ..
- Peer Effects on Neural and Behavioral Markers of Risk-TakingLaurence Steinberg; Fiscal Year: 2007....