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Jason Chein is affiliated with Temple University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Sociology and Political Science, Applied Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research focuses on a variety of topics such as Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Child Development and Digital Technology, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jason Chein include:

  • The Teenage Brain: Peer Influences on Adolescent Decision Making (2020) - UNC Libraries
  • Decreased reward-related brain function prospectively predicts increased substance use. (2021) - Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Do adolescents always take more risks than adults? A within-subjects developmental study of context effects on decision making and processing (2021) - PLoS ONE
  • The Role of Social Reward and Corticostriatal Connectivity in Substance Use (2020) - Journal of Psychiatry and Brain Science
  • Digital Media and Developing Brains: Concerns and Opportunities (2024) - Current Addiction Reports

Jason Chein frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include Lauren B. Alloy, Corinne P. Bart, Robin Nusslock, Tommy H. Ng, and Madison K. Titone.

Publications by Chein have appeared repeatedly in specific venues, with multiple papers in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and SSRN Electronic Journal. Other venues include UNC Libraries, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and Current Addiction Reports.

Best Publications

  • Peers increase adolescent risk taking by enhancing activity in the brain’s reward circuitry

    Jason Chein;Dustin Albert;Lia O’Brien;Kaitlyn Uckert

  • Does working memory training work? The promise and challenges of enhancing cognition by training working memory

    Alexandra B. Morrison;Jason M. Chein

  • The dual systems model: Review, reappraisal, and reaffirmation

    Elizabeth P. Shulman;Ashley R. Smith;Karol Silva;Grace Icenogle

  • Controlled & automatic processing: behavior, theory, and biological mechanisms

    Walter Schneider;Jason M. Chein

  • The Teenage Brain: Peer Influences on Adolescent Decision Making

    Dustin Albert;Jason Chein;Laurence Steinberg

  • Smartphones and Cognition: A Review of Research Exploring the Links between Mobile Technology Habits and Cognitive Functioning.

    Henry H. Wilmer;Lauren E. Sherman;Jason M. Chein

  • Expanding the mind's workspace: training and transfer effects with a complex working memory span task

    Jason M. Chein;Alexandra B. Morrison

  • Neuroimaging studies of practice-related change : fMRI and meta-analytic evidence of a domain-general control network for learning

    Jason M. Chein;Walter Schneider

  • Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation.

    Laurence Steinberg;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Elizabeth P. Shulman;Kaitlyn Breiner

  • Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World

    Natasha Duell;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Jason Chein

  • Functional dissociations within the inferior parietal cortex in verbal working memory

    Susan M. Ravizza;Susan M. Ravizza;Mauricio R. Delgado;Jason M. Chein;James T. Becker

  • Working memory training and transfer in older adults.

    Lauren L. Richmond;Alexandra B. Morrison;Jason M. Chein;Ingrid R. Olson

  • When Is an Adolescent an Adult? Assessing Cognitive Control in Emotional and Nonemotional Contexts

    Alexandra O. Cohen;Kaitlyn Breiner;Laurence Steinberg;Richard J. Bonnie

  • Sex Differences in the Developmental Trajectories of Impulse Control and Sensation-Seeking from Early Adolescence to Early Adulthood

    Elizabeth P. Shulman;K. Paige Harden;Jason M. Chein;Laurence Steinberg

  • Impact of socio-emotional context, brain development, and pubertal maturation on adolescent risk-taking

    Ashley R. Smith;Jason Chein;Laurence Steinberg

  • Dissociation of Verbal Working Memory System Components Using a Delayed Serial Recall Task

    Jason M. Chein;Julie A. Fiez

  • Adolescents Prefer More Immediate Rewards When in the Presence of their Peers

    Lia O'Brien;Dustin Albert;Jason Chein;Laurence Steinberg

  • Peers increase adolescent risk taking even when the probabilities of negative outcomes are known.

    Ashley R. Smith;Jason Chein;Laurence Steinberg

  • Improving Methodological Standards in Behavioral Interventions for Cognitive Enhancement

    C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier;Arthur F. Kramer;Arthur F. Kramer;Sophia Vinogradov

  • Domain-general mechanisms of complex working memory span

    Jason M. Chein;Adam B. Moore;Andrew R.A. Conway

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg Temple University
Suha M. Al-Hassan
Suha M. Al-Hassan Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
Sombat Tapanya
Sombat Tapanya Chiang Mai University
Jennifer E. Lansford
Jennifer E. Lansford Duke University
Concetta Pastorelli
Concetta Pastorelli Sapienza University of Rome
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
Kostas A. Fanti
Kostas A. Fanti University of Cyprus
Liane Peña Alampay
Liane Peña Alampay Ateneo de Manila University
Lei Chang
Lei Chang University of Macau
Laura Di Giunta
Laura Di Giunta Sapienza University of Rome

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