In the 2014 edition of his best-known textbook, Adolescence, Steinberg debunks the myth of the querulous teen with even more vigor. “The hormonal changes of puberty,” he writes, “have only a modest direct effect on adolescent behavior; rebellion during adolescence is atypical, not normal.”
Sweet Jesus on the cross. And this “scholar” works at my dream university, a place were I wanted to work so much that I totally bombed the phone interview. (It was also the only one among the 180+ places where I applied that specifically attracted me. The rest were pretty indistinguishable to me.) I was so nervous that I couldn’t have done worse even if I’d downed a bottle of rum right before getting interviewed. And all that stress was for a place where people of this scarily low intellectual caliber work.
I’m now really glad I didn’t get a job there. This way I don’t have to work with somebody who obviously does his research “in a very pleasant haze.”
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