Cited by 211Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentNeural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesYouth Development and Social Support

Social Influence on Positive Youth Development: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective

Open access
Telzer, Eva H., van Hoorn, Jorien, Rogers, Christina R., Do, Kathy T.·2018·Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Abstract

Susceptibility to social influence is associated with a host of negative outcomes during adolescence. However, emerging evidence implicates the role of peers and parents in adolescents' positive and adaptive adjustment. Hence, in this chapter we highlight social influence as an opportunity for promoting social adjustment, which can redirect negative trajectories and help adolescents thrive. We discuss influential models about the processes underlying social influence, with a particular emphasis on internalizing social norms, embedded in social learning and social identity theory. We link this behavioral work to developmental social neuroscience research, rooted in neurobiological models of decision making and social cognition. Work from this perspective suggests that the adolescent brain is highly malleable and particularly oriented toward the social world, which may account for heightened susceptibility to social influences during this developmental period. This chapter underscores the need to leverage social influences during adolescence, even beyond the family and peer context, to promote positive developmental outcomes. By further probing the underlying neural mechanisms as an additional layer to examining social influence on positive youth development, we will be able to gain traction on our understanding of this complex phenomenon.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/bs.acdb.2017.10.003

Cites

178 of 179 references verified1 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Selecting a random gift creates surprise and moments of anticipation essential to maintaining a state of play.

    “As a game mechanic, selecting a random gift creates surprise and moments of anticipation essential to maintaining a state of play [43].”

    From A Smartphone Serious Game for Adolescents (Grow It! App): Development, Feasibility, and Acceptance Study (2022) · cites this paper as [43]

    The Neurobiological Models of Adolescents’ Social Influence Susceptibility section discusses anticipation of rewards, but not random gifts, surprise, or maintaining a state of play. Searches for those terms and for game mechanics found no passage addressing the claim; page numbers were unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Telzer, E. H., van Hoorn, J., Rogers, C. R., & Do, K. T.
Affiliations
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Corresponding author
Telzer, Eva H.
Venue
Advances in Child Development and Behavior
Publisher
Elsevier
Published
2018
Volume
54
Pages
215-258
ISSN
0065-2407 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2774246150
Cited by
211
References
177
Citations by year
2026: 23 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 2
FWCI
52.52
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Advances in child development and behavior (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA039923)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Youth Development and Social Support
Keywords
social influence, positive youth development, adolescents, social norms, social learning theory, social identity theory, social cognition, decision-making, peer influence, parental influence, social adaptation
MeSH terms
Social Learning, Adolescent, Brain, Family, Humans, Neurosciences, Peer Group, Social Identification, Adolescent Development, Social Norms

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review