Social Science Space

David Pollard here argues that it would benefit society — and science — to seriously study the adolescent brain.

When does a modern young person become an ‘adult’? Age 13? 16? 18? 21? Legal definitions aside, young people in the developed world are feeling they’ve become independent operators much later in life than ever before.

According to an article featured in the Wall Street Journal, peer influence in teens tends to peak around age fifteen […]