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10 - The Role of Reflection in Promoting Adolescent Self-Regulation

from Part III - Neural Mechanisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

By
Philip David Zelazo  and
Sabine Doebel
Edited by
Gabriele Oettingen  and
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Gabriele Oettingen
Affiliation:
New York University
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Affiliation:
New York University
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Philip D. Zelazo, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minnesota; Sabine Doebel, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Correspondence concerning this chapter should be addressed to Philip David Zelazo, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455–0345. E-mail: [email protected], or Sabine Doebel, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, D244 Muenzinger, 345 UCB, Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0345. E-mail: [email protected]

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Self-Regulation in Adolescence , pp. 212 - 240
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Print publication year: 2015

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