There is so much going on inside a teenage brain that Disney’s Pixar subsidiary made a whole movie about it.
The new Pixar film 'Inside Out 2' gives voice to the emotions racing through the mind of 13-year-old Riley, including the character of Envy .
“One of the main features of emotional development in adolescence is this easy arousability of both positive and negative emotions,” Steinberg said. Their feelings are stronger thanAnd in adolescence, the brain has developed more of a capacity for abstract thought, bringing with it more complex emotions, said Damour, author of “
“To put it another way, it would be very strange if teenagers continued to be as close to their parents and share every single thing with their parents, and then suddenly, one day, they say, ‘OK, now I’m moving out,’” Damour said. If you ask an adolescent, you will get a more complex answer with nuanced personality traits, he added. This understanding of complexity brings benefits and challenges, he said.
“When coming into a new social situation, it makes sense that people might experience more anxiety about it during this period of development than either before or after,” he added.“Anxiety is valuable for teenagers if it does things like help them to get going on a test they have not studied for,” she said. “Anxiety is there to help us course correct, to help us anticipate problems or threats.”
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