Is adolescence a sensitive period for sociocultural processing?

By Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Kathryn L. Mills. Annual Review of Psychology, 2014

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Adolescence as a Sensitive Period of Brain Development. (2015, neutral): “9; also see [21,22]).”
Adolescent risk-taking in the context of exploration and social influence (2021, background): “On the other hand, adolescents may only show increased risk-taking behaviour when they believe that their peers expect them to drive aggressively – suggesting a form of reasoned risk-taking (Blakemore & Mills, 2014; Romer et al., 2014).”
Adolescent Susceptibility to Deviant Peer Pressure: Does Gender Matter? (2019, background): “It is clear from previous studies that peers affect adolescents’ decisions to engage (or not engage) in risky behaviors (Blakemore and Mills 2014; Miller 2009).”
Beyond Screen Time: Identity Development in the Digital Age (2020, background): “…games are likely impacting on identity processes at the moment-to-moment scale (e.g. hijacking attention through perceptual and reward circuitry; Blakemore & Mills, 2014; Crone & Konijn, 2018) as well as over developmental time (e.g. creating long-lasting preferences for particular types of…”
Assessment framework of the OECD Study on Social and Emotional Skills (2019, background): “And peers influence children’s behaviour and attitudes more and more as they transition into adolescence (Blakemore and Mills, 2014[194]; Knoll et al., 2015[195]) Knoll et al., 2015).”
The effects of social deprivation on adolescent development and mental health (2020, positive): “…following sections, we discuss evidence that human adolescents are hypersensitive to social stimuli and to the negative effects of social exclusion(4) and animal models that demonstrate that extreme forms of social deprivation including complete social isolation during adolescence have damaging…”
The importance of belonging and the avoidance of social risk taking in adolescence (2021, background): “It has been proposed that, as a consequence of this hypersensitivity to social exclusion, adolescents are risk averse when it comes to taking social risks (Blakemore, 2018; Blakemore & Mills, 2014).”
THE DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF LIFE: THEORY, MEASUREMENT, AND POLICIES (2015, background): “See Cunha et al. (2010), Heckman et al. (2013), Cunha et al. (2006), Cunha and Heckman (2008), Attanasio et al.”
Beyond simple models of self-control to circuit-based accounts of adolescent behavior. (2015, background): “Social contexts impact behavior throughout the life span, but perhaps never as much as during adolescence (Blakemore & Mills 2014, Somerville 2013, Steinberg et al. 2008).”
Frequency-specific maturation of cortical organization and social-cognitive links from childhood to adolescence (2025, unknown): “…rapid maturation around puberty, coinciding with the emergence of abstract thinking, self-identity, and enhanced self-referential capacities characteristic of early adolescence (Blakemore & Mills, 2014; Steinberg, 2005; Sweatman et al., 2025; van der Cruijsen et al., 2023; Waterman, 1982).”