Todays Brain Science Wont Help You Understand Teens

Abstract

ABC News Headline: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Teen Brain May Have Pushed Him to Violence. As illustrated by the above headline, popular news coverage vastly overstates the relationship between the state of teenage brain research and complex behavior. Teen brain science lacks strong conclusions, and journalists can easily distort or misunderstand the findings.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Accession Number
AD1088107

Entities

People

  • Wendy Chambers

Organizations

  • Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adolescents
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Demography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Governments
  • Indicators
  • Learning
  • Lost Generation
  • Marine Corps
  • New York
  • Observers
  • Pipelines
  • Psychology
  • United States
  • Violence

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