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Mary Carskadon
- My colleagues and I have conducted research on adolescent sleep patterns.
- I found that if allowed to do so, adolescents would sleep on the average of 9 hours and 25 minutes a day.
- I also found that most adolescents actually get less than nine hours of sleep, which creates sleep debt.
- My colleagues and I revealed that older adolescents are sleepier than younger ones during the day.
- I believe that early school starting times cause grogginess and hence hinder performance on tests.
Bruce Compas
- I am an expert on youth coping.
- I study the relationships among stress, coping, and self-regulation in physical and mental health.
- I also study interventions to ameliorate the negative effects of stress.
- I believe that poverty is the single biggest challenge currently facing youth in America.
Richard Lazarus
- I classify strategies into two categories: problem-focused and emotion-focused.
- Research suggests both strategies have their benefits, depending on the situation.
- I believe that how individuals appraise, or view, stressors dramatically affects their impact.
- I think that if individuals believe they have the ability to cope with a stressor they will not be as negatively impacted by it.
Hans Selye
- I study the effects of stress on individuals.
- I coined the term general adaptation syndrome to describe the effects of chronic stress on the body.
- I believe that our emotional responses influence the impact of stress on our bodies.
Laurence Steinberg
- I believe we should place limits on adolescents to protect them from the effects of their immature judgment.
- I think we should make risky behavior harder to engage in rather than trying to teach wisdom.
- My research has important implications for whether adolescents should be tried as adults.
Shelley Taylor
- I study gender differences in response to stress.
- I believe that the fight-or-flight response describes boys' and men's responses to stress better than girls' and women's.
- I think girls and women are more likely to "tend-and-befriend" in response to stress.
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