Adolescence often is thought to be the age period of heightened risk taking (eg, substance
use, reckless driving, sexual risks, delinquency) by both researchers and the general public …

Mental health problems in young people have been on the rise for over a decade, with that
trend accelerating during the pandemic. This review proposes that the catalyst effect of the …

Human development is often described as a 'cooling off'process, analogous to stochastic
optimization algorithms that implement a gradual reduction in randomness over time. Yet …

Peer influence is a twofold process that entails a behavior by an agent of influence that
elicits conformity from the target of influence. Susceptibility describes the likelihood that …

Adolescence is a period of social re-orientation in which we are generally more prone to
peer influence and the updating of our beliefs based on social information, also called social …

Imaginary worlds are extremely successful. The most popular fictions produced in the last
few decades contain such a fictional world. They can be found in all fictional media, from …

Patch foraging is a near-ubiquitous behaviour across the animal kingdom and characterises
many decision-making domains encountered by humans. We review how a disposition to …

A substantial portion of critical adolescent development is occurring within digital
environments. However, certain individual differences may lead adolescents to use digital …

People take risks at all ages to achieve certain goals. Although these goals may be
achieved through negative risks (eg, adolescent drinking to impress their friends), people …

Adolescents have long been characterized as the stereotypical risk-takers, due to their
apparent heightened risk behavior (eg, delinquency, substance use). Hence, the raising of …