All Adolescent Thinking

Patterns of thought typical of adolescence, in which young people imagine themselves as the focus of others' attention or feel uniquely special, such as the imaginary audience and the personal fable. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article ties it to adolescence. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Adolescent Thinking rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.