Life After Quarantine: What We Can Learn From Living Like a Teen

Shannon Mullen O'Keefe
6 min readApr 4, 2020

Teens and adults use different parts of their brains to process what they are feeling.

When teenagers were asked to review the expression on the face of a woman in a photo during one study about the brain the teens identified her look as ‘shocked, surprised, angry,” while the adults correctly identified the expression as ‘fear.’

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Shannon Mullen O'Keefe

A lover of wisdom, dedicated to imagining what we can build and achieve together. Chief Curator |The Museum of Ideas https://www.themuseumofideas.com/