Are all teenagers emotionally illiterate? Charting a neuroscientific storying of normative deficit

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dc.contributor.authorPayne, Monica A.
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-22T02:45:48Z
dc.date.available2012-06-22T02:45:48Z
dc.date.copyright2012-06
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractDefining ‘emotional illiteracy’ is a task located within the broader context of expert (and subsequently public) assumptions regarding the normally expectable competencies of the age group concerned. In the late 1990s a series of neuroscientific studies reporting adolescents' limited ability to recognize emotional states from facial expressions seemed to present radically new developmental benchmarks. Although these studies were subsequently subjected to considerable methodological and interpretive criticism, some incautious assertions regarding teenagers' general inability to respond appropriately, especially in emotionally charged situations, continued to flourish. This paper charts the creation and maintenance of these ideas over the past decade to illustrate how, when primary sources are not carefully checked, powerful messages for which there is dubious empirical evidence can become incorporated into expert advice. It also suggests the importance of linking neuroscientific claims to other strands of contemporary Western efforts to define and contrast normative and disordered emotional behaviour in adolescence.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationPayne, M.A. (2012). Are all teenagers emotionally illiterate? Charting a neuroscientific storying of normative deficit. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 17(2), 143-155.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13632752.2012.672864en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/6421
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfEmotional and Behavioural Difficultiesen_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofEmotional and Behavioural Difficulties
dc.relation.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13632752.2012.672864en_NZ
dc.subjectadolescentsen_NZ
dc.subjectamygdalaen_NZ
dc.subjectemotional difficultyen_NZ
dc.subjectemotional literacyen_NZ
dc.subjectface recognitionen_NZ
dc.subjectteen brainen_NZ
dc.titleAre all teenagers emotionally illiterate? Charting a neuroscientific storying of normative deficiten_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
pubs.begin-page143en_NZ
pubs.elements-id37592
pubs.end-page155en_NZ
pubs.issue2en_NZ
pubs.volume17en_NZ
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