Emotions in Adolescents In adolescents their emotions are more complex at this age than any other age. The reason why is mainly they are going through puberty and have hormones that are going all over the place. Adolescence is often characterized as a time of emotional turbulence, hormonal changes, and teen rebellion against parents (Cooley, 2012). Most adolescents start having mixed emotions about their clothes, who they hang out with, and many more things in life. Emotions are defined as an instinctual, reflexive, or automatic reasoning (Cooley, 2012). When an adolescent experiences an emotion it involves a cognitive appraisal of a situation and subsequently appraisal influenced by their emotional experience. Emotions provide important social cue information, recalling experience and how to respond in social interactions. Emotions have three domains: Experience, Arousal, and Expression (Lanteigne, 2012). This is when adolescents learn to be more adaptive at managing their emotions to achieve social goals and masking emotional expression. For western popular culture adolescents emotions based on gender differences are widely held. Learning to express emotions is the key feature of healthy social emotional development (Chaplin, 2012). This paper is going to talk about the adolescents and their emotions and what roles that partake in everyday life for them. Explaining what affects the different roles in each gender as well. Emotions are a source of information and basis for judgment and action relevant to social context (Cooley, 2012). For adolescents to understand the basic emotions they had to learn them at an earl stage in life. As children they learn that there are different emotions to express to communicate with adults. For example, when a child falls down and hurts themselves they will most likely show an emotion of sadness and start to cry. As Cooley