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Recipe For Transcendent Thinking

Name: Recipe For Transcendent Thinking
Start: 2026-11-03T17:30:00.000-08:00
End: 2026-11-03T19:30:00.000-08:00
Location: Menlo Park, CA

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Transcendent thinking is our ability to make deep meaning about the social world and self. It’s a considered a key developmental milestone, one where young people learn to grapple with the ethical, systems-level and personal implications of their actions and lives. Join us for dinner with Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, the researcher leading the way in understanding the link between transcendent thinking and adolescent brain development.

Required reading:

A Scientific American article, for a narrative/pop press read that integrates some of our work with adolescents:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/transcendent-thinking-boosts-teen-brains-in-ways-that-enhance-life/

Recommended Reading:

A key empirical paper from the adolescent longitudinal study:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56800-0

A review/position piece on the need for developmental education:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0091732X231223516