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jerryjamesstoneJan 27, 2011
I don't think that requires a scan
derekmarkhamJan 28, 2011
whatever, dude. you're like, old.
jerryjamesstoneJan 28, 2011
Ha!
jerryjamesstoneJan 28, 2011
Ha!
anomaly100Jan 27, 2011
All kids in the adolescent stage go through a narcissistic stage. It's inevitable and it's been proven. No one slips by it unfortunately. It's why working with adolescents is more difficult for people in the field. Their brains have not matured into adulthood in order to think of others first (or even at all sometimes).
A brain scan would be far quicker than my comment though!
goweigusJan 28, 2011
all/inevitable/proven/no one slips by it
I must have known, met, raised, taught, and experienced life with a bunch of aliens?
michaelpintoJan 27, 2011Submitter
For the record I rewrote the headline because I think the study has a great deal of bias. For starters your brain reacts to the situation that you are put in: For example my bet is that teens care a great deal about their immediate peers — maybe more so than older adults. Or I'd bet that teen moms would care a great deal about their own children. I'd also take issue with the notion that everyone becomes a "respectable adult" in by contrast that there aren't responsible teens who care (because there are quite a few).
rnyhusJan 28, 2011
The other problem is that teenage culture and behavioural norms are a modern phenomenon. You will not find the word teenager in any British English dictionaries before the early 50s (it is a US created word), but rather the purely puberty connotative word adolescent. The mostly externally created sub-culture of this age group could exaggerate this level of "selfishness" that is found, as this sub-culture is highly commercialistic.
It would be interesting to see the same study preformed on non-western and non-western influenced youth.
matt88Jan 28, 2011
I know this all too well. It doesn't bother me but my wife gets so cut up when our 17yo son doesn't spend much time with her and greets her with "Sup". I think that she should be happy that he speaks with her at all.
showbrideJan 28, 2011
Really?
frakkinbastardJan 28, 2011
Kids are not persons. News at 11.
It's time to stop this pedocracy madness: the world is made by and for the adults, children and adolescents are imperfect, unfinished versions of the real human being. They should not be listened to, they must be held in check and punished when they misbehave. They have no duties and hence no rights. All the rest is pure stupidity.
matt88Jan 28, 2011
Wow interesting POV - you are not being serious are you?
ch1pm0nkJan 28, 2011
Brain scans show that 99% of users dont care about this website.
rickthebrickJan 28, 2011
I believe that the brain is like a computer. There is nothing magical about it. If one does not like what any brain decides to do than there is a problem with either hardware or software. Hardware is the brain itself and if there is a problem there no amount of software will change it. Even if there are no hardware problem there might be a software(how the humans was instructed and the human's experiences) problem. One might blame a human for ignoring some instructions and thus doing the wrong thing but I say they were not given the right prior instructions to realize the value of that instruction. Even though I do not blame anyone for their behavior it does not do me any good if they attempt to kill or steal from me since the outcome would be the same. Maybe in 50 or more years from now we might solve all of the hardware problems with the brain(mental illness) but for now we have to rely on force to protect ourselves. I believe that all of the suicide bombers in the middle east are blameless but I still would shoot to kill one before they accomplished their objective since it would save the innocent. The suicide bomber would have died anyway. It is for this reason I do not believe in punishment after death.
dinousarJan 29, 2011
computers don't make distinctions between values and what is considered "innocent" because it has no programing to determine something of that complexity. Your argument is so full of holes, I'm assuming you just wanted to use the computer analogy to be clever about using "hardware" and "software"
And what are you getting at? Do you consider humanity a race of automatons who can't be blamed for an action because of "hardware" and "software" issues? Do you really believe that cognitive function is automated by some level of "programing" versus choice and environmental impact?
I personally don't know why I'm getting into this. rickthebrick, you need to read your arguments aloud before you post them.
friday1970Jan 30, 2011
FTA: "The research was supported by a Vidi grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research"
Somebody got ripped off.