Popular culture often portrays adolescence as a period of peak risk-taking, but that
developmental trend is not consistently found across laboratory studies. Instead, meta …

Adolescence is a period of development in which youth have new opportunities for decision-
making, often in situations where they may have little information or experience to guide …

Adolescents often make risky and impulsive decisions. Such behavior has led to the
common assumption that a dysfunction in risk-related decision-making peaks during this …

Although actuarial data indicate that risk-taking behavior peaks in adolescence, laboratory
evidence for this developmental spike remains scarce. One possible explanation for this …

Given adolescents' propensity to engage in risky activities, experimentally elicited risk
preferences have received much attention in this demographic group. In order to address …

Attitudes to risk (known probabilities) and attitudes to ambiguity (unknown probabilities) are
separate constructs that influence decision making, but their development across …

Adolescence is often described as a period of heightened risk-taking. Adolescents are
notorious for impulsivity, emotional volatility, and risky behaviors such as drinking and …

Adolescent decision-making has been characterized as risky, and a heightened reward
sensitivity may be one of the aspects contributing to riskier choice-behavior. Previous …

Surveys concur that adolescents disproportionately engage in many real-world risk
behaviors, compared with children and adults. Recently researchers have employed …

Adolescents engage in a wide range of risky behaviors that their older peers shun, and at an
enormous cost. Despite being older, stronger, and healthier than children, adolescents face …