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dc.contributor.authorPayne, Monica A.
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-10T04:48:09Z
dc.date.available2012-08-10T04:48:09Z
dc.date.copyright2011-12-12
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationPayne, M.A. (2012). “All Gas and No Brakes!”: Helpful metaphor or harmful stereotype? Journal of Adolescent Research, 27(1), 3-17.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/6576
dc.description.abstractIn this essay, I consider the concurrent emergence of a new generic metaphor for the adolescent condition and suggest that, given the familiar notions of a poorly controlled (or even totally out-of-control) state of being it invokes, its endorsement by “teen brain” supporters seriously compromises assertions of even-handed promotion of adolescents’ strengths and weaknesses. Of course the riposte to this might be that metaphors matter much less than “hard facts,” and such imagery should be seen merely as helpful (even mildly humorous) conceptual shorthand for complex science. Do a few “mere words,” therefore, truly warrant special attention? Believing they do, and that this metaphor constitutes a significantly undesirable contribution to the way Western adults are being persuaded to think and talk about young people, I first offer an eclectic sampling of its use and then consider its potential influence with reference to the general role of metaphor in constructing developmental understandings.en_NZ
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSageen_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Adolescent Research
dc.relation.urihttp://jar.sagepub.com/content/27/1/3.refsen_NZ
dc.subjectadolescenceen_NZ
dc.subjectdevelopmental metaphorsen_NZ
dc.subjectneuroscienceen_NZ
dc.subjectstorm and stressen_NZ
dc.subjectteen brainen_NZ
dc.title“All Gas and No Brakes!”: Helpful metaphor or harmful stereotype?en_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0743558411412956en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Adolescent Researchen_NZ
pubs.begin-page3en_NZ
pubs.elements-id36967
pubs.end-page17en_NZ
pubs.issue1en_NZ
pubs.volume27en_NZ


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