2PSYCHOLOGY IN THE NEWSPsychology in the NewsArticle 1: Teenagers Do Dumb Things, but There Are Ways to Limit RecklessnessTeenagers Do Dumb Things, but There Are Ways to Limit Recklessness - The New York Times. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/well/family/teenagers-do-dumb-things-but-there-are-ways-to-limit-recklessness.html?According to this article, many parents are worried about their thrill-seeking centers which have taken place in the brains of their adolescent kids. New research has shed more light on the issue of teenagers and the issue of self-control. Adolescents have similar risk-prone brains but vary in actual risk-taking. In one of the psychologist argument, the context in which kids grow up has the largest contributing factor to the teenager’s recklessness. It is a thus inevitable byproduct of the period of biology(Seligman, & Csikszentmihalyi, 2014). The argument continues with saying that it doesn’t mean that if something is rooted in biology, nothing can be done to solve that particular problem. An example is given where a teenager in China are compared to those in America. The Chinese teenager is better oriented.Researches are arguing that those countries that have low risk-taking teenagers have encouraged self-control from a very tender age. It is built on a structure where kids are not free, and they don’t get a lot of unstructured time (Seligman, & Csikszentmihalyi, 2014). Teenagers are acting recklessly when the rational centers of their brain come up against the kryptonite of social and emotional charged situations. Even level-headed teenagers can have a moment of madness when they find themselves in a situation which is compromising their knowledge. Psychologist continues with their argument by stating that teenager behaviors should be made
