Whenever teenagers are confronted about their behavior, they usually say they behave like that because they are in search of attention and acceptance. Maybe the key to understanding why teens behave as such is to understand how their brain works.
AsapScience made a video illustration explaining why teens are the way they are. While many find it hard to understand why teens behave or dress the way they do, there are actually a number of biological explanations as to why these things happen to this specific age group.
One of the most important factors to consider is that the brains of young people in this specific age group are just starting to mature especially in areas in charge of impulse control and risk evaluation, medicaldaily.com reported.
This has a noticeable impact on their decision making. It is also at this stage that hormones such as estrogen and testosterone are at their peak.
These hormones greatly affect teens in areas where they are most obvious, their need to express themselves and their response to emotional triggers around them. Their response to emotional stimuli around them can explain why most teens love adventure and unexplainable admiration of certain boybands.
According to HuffingtonPost, Dr. Frances Jensen, chair of the University of Pennsylvania neurology department wrote a book, The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults to understand why teens' behave and that it's entirely their fault they're impulsive, moody, and often only think of themselves. Jensen is not only a neuroscientist but also a mother of two teenage boys, and she described this stage as the "second critical stage of development" after early childhood.
However, more than the hormones influencing these teens' behaviors, it's the need to be accepted socially that trigger behavioral changes. Most, if not all teens' fear is to be unpopular and this inexplicable fear drives them to do certain actions which can be totally bizarre to adults.
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