Comprehensive meta-analyses of risky decision making in children, adolescents, and adults
have revealed that age trends in disambiguated laboratory tasks confirmed fuzzy-trace
theory's prediction that preference for risk decreases monotonically from childhood to
adulthood. These findings are contrary to predictions of dual systems or neurobiological
imbalance models. Assumptions about increasing developmental reliance on mental
representations of the gist of risky options are essential to account for this developmental …