{"id":185407,"date":"2024-03-19T06:28:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T11:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/teens-transcendent-thinking-spurs-brain-growth"},"modified":"2024-03-19T06:28:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T11:28:51","slug":"teens-transcendent-thinking-spurs-brain-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/teens-transcendent-thinking-spurs-brain-growth","title":{"rendered":"Teens\u2019 Transcendent Thinking Spurs Brain Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teens-transcendent-thinking-spurs-brain-growth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Adolescents engaging in \u201ctranscendent thinking\u201d\u2014the practice of looking beyond the immediate context to understand deeper meanings and implications\u2014can significantly influence their brain development. The study highlights how this complex form of thinking fosters coordination between the brain\u2019s executive control and default mode networks, crucial for psychological functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing high school students\u2019 responses to global teen stories, researchers found that transcendent thinking not only enhances brain network coordination over time but also predicts key psychosocial outcomes in young adulthood. These groundbreaking findings underline the potential of civically minded education in supporting adolescents\u2019 cognitive and emotional development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Adolescents engaging in \u201ctranscendent thinking\u201d\u2014the practice of looking beyond the immediate context to understand deeper meanings and implications\u2014can significantly influence their brain development. The study highlights how this complex form of thinking fosters coordination between the brain\u2019s executive control and default mode networks, crucial for psychological functioning. Analyzing high school students\u2019 responses to global [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}