Prosocial development in adolescence

Eveline A. Crone; Michelle Achterberg

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.020

Prosocial development in adolescence

Eveline A. Crone^*, Michelle Achterberg

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Developmental Neuroscience in Society

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Abstract

In this review, we describe the development of prosocial behavior in adolescence as a critical inflection period for social adjustment. Experimental research using prosocial giving tasks demonstrates that adolescents differentiate more between recipients and contexts, suggesting increasing ingroup-outgroup differentiation during adolescence. We also demonstrate that social brain development during adolescence is partly driven by environmental influences, further underlining adolescence as a critical period for social development. The COVID-19 pandemic has had and will have long-term effects on the current generation of adolescents, for which we describe both the risks, resilience factors, and opportunities for engaging in prosocial acts of kindness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	220-225
Number of pages	6
Journal	Current Opinion in Psychology
Volume	44
Early online date	5 Oct 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.020
Publication status	Published - Apr 2022

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E.A.C. is supported by an ‘innovative ideas’ grant of the European Research Council (ERC CoG PROSOCIAL 681632 to E.A.C.).

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