Why do our personalities change when we’re teenagers?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Some teens’ personalities seem to change more frequently than the weather in April! Why is that? What’s going on in the brains and bodies of growing humans that changes how they interact with friends and family? We asked child development expert Dr. Ed Greene to tell us about the mighty forces that shape a young person’s personality.
Got a question that will boost your mood? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact and we’ll help you feel out an answer!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of umm. |
| 0:06.0 | Answering those questions that make you go, |
| 0:11.0 | um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um. Um, um, um. Moment of Am comes to you from APM studios. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm your news anchor Carl Cortex. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to Neural Network News, |
| 0:40.0 | reporting all the information that's fit to process. |
| 0:44.0 | This just in, we have breaking news of a storm forming in the brain of a teenager, |
| 0:50.0 | named Kyle. |
| 0:51.0 | Oh boy, this one's a doozy. |
| 0:55.0 | Kyle is 14 and his moods are all over the place. |
| 1:00.0 | So far today he's gone from Grumpy to Giddy then back to Grumpy and that was just during breakfast |
| 1:10.1 | Nureons are firing everywhere and different signals are coming in from all over Kyle's body. |
| 1:17.0 | Kyle's brain is working overtime to make sense of it all. |
| 1:20.0 | He used to be such an easygoing kid, but now? |
| 1:24.0 | Some days it's sunny skies all the way. |
| 1:27.0 | He gets along with everyone, even his little sister. |
| 1:31.0 | Then pow, total sulkasaurus. Have you ever wondered what's up with teen |
| 1:38.1 | mood swings? Well, Carter had the same question. Why do our personalities change |
| 1:45.0 | when we're teenagers? |
| 1:46.7 | When we're teenagers. |
| 2:02.0 | When we go through this particular stage, it's really moving towards the point where we're becoming more and more stable and what we do and how we respond to the world. My name's Dr. Ed Green. My background is in child |
| 2:05.2 | development, early learning, and children's media environments. Sometimes things |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from American Public Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of American Public Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.