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Spring 2025 Research Roundup
This roundup provides an overview of recent research into adolescent development, highlighting the role of family relationships, sleep, adverse childhood experiences, and neighborhood characteristics in brain development and mental health.
Social Media and Adolescents, part 2: Helping Youth Thrive in a Technocentric World
Ron talks with researchers Nick Allen and Jacqueline Nesi about how developmental science can help…
Social Media and Adolescents, part 1: “We have the entire world in our back pockets”
Former Youth Scientific Council Members Dallas Tanner and Becker Chabaan talk with Ron about how…
Winter 2024 Research Roundup
This roundup provides an overview of recent research about adolescent development that examined the importance of parents’ ethnic-racial identity, the benefits of a mindfulness intervention, the link between agency and sense of purpose, the association between brain development and resilience to stress, and the link between heart rate variability and mental health.
Elections as Opportunities for Positive Adolescent Development
A new resource from the National Scientific Council on Adolescence that offers ways to support positive development for young people during and after elections
