The Teenage Brain: Sensitivity to Social Evaluation

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-127

  Somerville, Leah H ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; brain; development; evaluation; rejection; social

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876229215     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721413476512     Document Type: Review

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