Everyday Neuro 022: Empowering Our Future Change Makers - The Benefits of Transcendent Thinking on Identity Development in Adolescence

“what they'd actually liked to do is be more involved in conversations about the future, about the environment, about more complex issues. But what seems to be their worry is that when they do talk about this that they might not have their views heard and worse still they might find that they have their comments ridiculed or made fun of or just generally ignored.”

“when we connect the executive control network with the default mode network what we're doing is we're building a neural bridge between daydreams and practicality and if we use it then guess what we're actually going to strengthen it”

“transcendent thinking influenced young adult self-liking and relationship satisfaction and this was due to the participants having a stronger self-identity.”