"all gas and no brakes!": Helpful metaphor or harmful stereotype?

Journal of Adolescent Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-17

  Payne, Monica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

adolescence; developmental metaphors; neuroscience; storm and stress; teen brain

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155183360     PISSN: 07435584     EISSN: 15526895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0743558411412956     Document Type: Editorial

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