Seminar announcement: Andrea Reiter (Germany), 27 March 2025
Title: Social Decision-Making from Adolescence to Adulthood - Implications for Adolescents’ Mental Health.
Abstract
Adolescence is a period of life characterized by a shift in social orientation away from the parents, towards one’s peer group. Animal and human studies suggest that social interactions, particularly if they involve peers, are more salient for adolescents than for adults, with implications for both adaptive and maladaptive development. I will present cross-sectional as well as longitudinal human data, focusing on the development of different social decision-making domains. I will relate the development of social decision-making to structural brain development, real-life social interactions, and self-esteem. I will also outline implications for mental health issues in adolescents and speculate about how knowledge about how adolescents learn in social situations might help us to tailor developmentally sensitive psychotherapies.
Zoom link:
https://uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/67862809703?pwd=WHM3b3lIUFJYY2x0ekxLZUhxS3UvUT09
Meeting-ID: 678 6280 9703, Code: 193789
About the seminar series:
This seminar is part of the Bonn-Melbourne Seminar Series in Decision Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry, jointly organised by the University of Bonn (Institute of Psychology) and the University of Melbourne (Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets).
Convenors: Professor Ulrich Ettinger (University of Bonn), Professor Carsten Murawski (University of Melbourne)
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