Identity development during adolescence and emerging adulthood encompasses the processes by which individuals explore, commit to and integrate values, beliefs and roles to form a coherent sense of ...

Source: Columbia Pictures Within emerging adulthood, individuals have the opportunity to learn about themselves while being exposed to a myriad of peers with varying identities. This time allows one ...

Developmental scientists have long described mid-adolescents’ emerging capacities to make deep meaning about the social world and self, here called transcendent thinking, as a hallmark developmental ...

In her new book, Bronwyn Nichols Lodato, an assistant professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, explores the unique impact that major societal disruptions have on young ...