Prosocial development in adolescence

作者：Eveline A. Crone, Michelle Achterberg · 发表于：Current Opinion in Psychology · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.020 · 被引用次数：100 · 研究领域：Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development、Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression、Behavioral Health and Interventions

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.