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Teen Brain Trust
Why Are Teens Socially Awkward? Let Science Explain!
5 minutes Posted Feb 19, 2022 at 12:00 pm.
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Teens are obsessed with thriving socially—so how are they so clumsy and awkward in social situations? Episode host Robin Friend, Teen Brain Trust Co-Creator and Lead Course Designer, dives into the four main factors that neuroscience can explain. He breaks down the frequently cringey process of development that the writer Quentin Crisp—not a neuroscientist—aptly described as rebelling and conforming at the same time.