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A recent study conducted by Jennifer Watling Neal, an assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University, found that children who were more accurate in their assessment of their number of friends or who underestimated their quantity of friends compared to peer report were more aggressive. When kids say they have more friends than their […]

Half the nation’s overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says: http://health.heraldtribune.com/2012/05/21/a-study-of-overweight-teenagers-finds-reasons-to-worry/ New research, to be unveiled today at a European conference in Serbia, has found that obese adolescents with no symptoms of heart disease […]

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A study looks at the physiology behind teens’ increases sense of self-conciousness http://www.counselheal.com/articles/5940/20130702/teenagers-prone-feeling-self-conscious-study-reports.htm