TVO - The Agenda, Sept 20 2010: Emerging Adulthood | What Is It About 20-Somethings?

TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, September 20 2010: Emerging Adulthood | What Is It About 20-Somethings?

Clark University Professor Jeffrey Jensen Arnett will join us for his take on Emerging Adulthood. Then: some are calling it a new developmental stage and others are calling it a generation gone wrong. Why 20-somethings are taking longer to grow up.

1) Jeffrey Jensen Arnett on Emerging Adulthood

Why are young people taking so long to grow up? Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, research professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University, on his theory of emerging adulthood - the phase of life tucked between the salad days of adolescence and the stability of adulthood.

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2) What is it About 20-Somethings?

Some are calling it a new developmental stage and others are calling it a generation gone wrong. Why 20-somethings are taking longer to grow up.

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http://ww3.tvo.org/video/165502/what-it-about-20-somethings

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Guests:

Ron Clavier

Miles Corak

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett

Jordan Peterson - Author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.

Derek Thompson


For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage

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