Assignment 1: Presentation of Research Article Name: Lecturer: Course: February 26, 2012 Presentation of Research Article The research article focuses on relationships in society based on the social cognitive theory. It particularly addresses the adolescents and states that relationships are important to them. It tends to explain how relationships in the society begin, happen and end. In discussing the social cognitive theory the writer explains social relationships and the development of the brain. The development of the brain such as the prefrontal, parietal and superior temporary cortex is clearly explained with regard to the development of social cognition. It states that the development of adolescents is poorly understood. The article is systematic and builds on first explaining the development of the childhood stage and continues till adulthood. To address the thesis of the research the authors describe behavioral and neuroimaging studies that are specific to adolescences. In addition data is presented to present the emotional perspective development during the adolescence stage. As explained in the results where 112 participants aged 8 – 36 are interviewed; they indicated that the reaction time in the answering of first person perspective and third person perspective decreased as age aged increase. The aged respondents in the sample tended to a close to zero cluster close (third person perspective = first person perspective) of the s...