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9 - Development of the Social Brain in Adolescence

from Part III - Neural Mechanisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

By
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
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Gabriele Oettingen  and
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Gabriele Oettingen
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New York University
Peter M. Gollwitzer
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New York University
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

The author is supported by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and by grants from the Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation.

Correspondence concerning this chapter should be addressed to Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK. E-mail: s.blakemore@ucl.ac.uk

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Self-Regulation in Adolescence , pp. 193 - 211
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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