By: Elijah and Zoe. The conclusions reached in the article “Teens’ Brains” affirm the actions and thoughts of both Romeo and Juliet. Romeo affirms the conclusion that experts’ can talk about how “juveniles on average are more: impulsive, aggressive, emotionally volatile, likely to take risks, reactive to stress, vulnerable to peer pressure, prone to focus on short-term payoff and underplay longer term consequences of what they do” “when they are confronted with stressful or emotional decisions” (qtd in “Teens’ Brains”). Meaning that teens don’t look for any alternate solutions to the problems they may face and are greatly affected by their emotions which Romeo does after Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo overtaken by grief and wanting to fight Tybalt saying, “And …show more content…
i. 131-136. See also In this scene Romeo only acts on his emotions in a vulnerable state and decides to fight Tybalt, not thinking about what the consequences could be or seeking a peaceful form of action. As a teen myself I feel like many others can relate to similar situations but hopefully not as violent situations as Romeo is put in. Dr. David Fassler is a psychiatry professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He says that teens on average are more “Impulsive, aggressive, emotionally volatile, likely to take risks, reactive to stress, vulnerable to peer pressure, prone to focus on short-term payoffs and underplay longer-term consequences of what they do” (qtd in “Teens’ Brains). As a teen myself, I feel that I can fall into some of these categories like being more impulsive. If someone said something that I may not have liked, I would have reacted in a way that I shouldn’t have had due to me not thinking before acting. In short, teens are more sensitive when people hurt their feelings or tell them things they don’t want to hear, as in Romeo and Juliet when Lady Capulet tells Juliet that she should leave Romeo and Mary Paris. At that moment it shows that Juliet is