1. Judith Bessant (2008). Hard wired for risk: Neurological science, “the adolescent brain” and developmental theory. Journal of Youth Studies, 11, 347–60.
2. This article is a sociological critique of the emerging neurological field of research on the adolescent brain development.
3. James E. Côté (1992). Was Mead wrong about coming of age in Samoa?: An analysis of the Mead/Freeman controversy for scholars of adolescence and human development. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 21, 499–527.
4. This article examines the controversy that developed in the 1980s over the validity of Mead’s 1920s research contesting Hall’s storm and stress thesis. Among other things, an undercurrent of this controversy is the nature—nurture debate, with Mead’s critics largely being nature advocates who bear grudges against the ground gained by nurture advocates over the twentieth century.
5. Leo B. Hendry & Marion Kloep (2010). How universal is emerging adulthood? An empirical example. Journal of Youth Studies, 13, 169–79.