Shock study findings: Teenagers are selfish

More and more research is finding that teenagers' brains function differently than adults. I guess we all really knew that anyway, but it's nice to have some science to back it up. Adults beware, your child just got another reason to think only of themselves.

Teenagers are more selfish than adults because they use a different part of their brain to make decisions compared to adults, new research suggests.

The work has implications for the types of responsibility given toadolescents, Blakemore says: “Teenager’s brains are a work in progressand profoundly different from adults. If you’re making decisions abouthow to treat teenagers in terms of the law, you need to take this newresearch into account.”

Why adolescents put themselves first - being-human - 08 September 2006 - New Scientist

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