national longitudinal study of adolescent health
Social costs of achievement vary by race/ethnicity, school features
Doing well in school and feeling accepted by your peers are both important challenges during adolescence. Sometimes these don’t fit well together, as when teens are ostracized for being smart. A new study has found that such pressures differ for tee…
Researchers find a ‘liberal gene’
Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine recept…
Low grades in adolescence linked to dopamine genes
The academic performance of adolescents will suffer in at least one of four key subjects — — English, math, science, history — — if their DNA contains one or more of three specific dopamine gene variations, according to a study led by ren…