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Do Cognitive Changes Accompany Developments in the Adolescent Brain?

Published in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

The news that the brain continues to develop through much of adolescence risks becoming an explanation for anything and everything about teenagers and suggests the need for closer analysis. Central to such analysis is clarifying what develops at a psychological level during these years. An examination of contemporary research data on adolescent cog...

Measured Gene-Environment Interactions in Psychopathology: Concepts, Research Strategies, and Implications for Research,...

Published in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

There is much curiosity about interactions between genes and environmental risk factors for psychopathology, but this interest is accompanied by uncertainty. This article aims to address this uncertainty. First, we explain what is and is not meant by gene-environment interaction. Second, we discuss reasons why such interactions were thought to be r...

Editorial.

Published in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

Leon Festinger: Lunch With Leon.

Published in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

Are Emotions Natural Kinds?

Published in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

Laypeople and scientists alike believe that they know anger, or sadness, or fear, when they see it. These emotions and a few others are presumed to have specific causal mechanisms in the brain and properties that are observable (on the face, in the voice, in the body, or in experience)-that is, they are assumed to be natural kinds. If a given emoti...

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Published in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science