Following a key developmental task of childhood—building a foundation of self‐knowledge
in the form of domain‐specific self‐concepts—adolescents begin to explore their emerging …

As the science of self-control matures, the organization and integration of its key concepts
becomes increasingly important. In response, we identified seven major components or …

It is ultimately an empirical question whether risk preferences are stable over time. The
evidence comes from diverse strands of literature, covering the stability of risk preferences in …

Combining meaning, memory, and development, the perennially popular topic of intuition
can be approached in a new way. Fuzzy-trace theory integrates these topics by …

The authors investigated risk taking and underlying information use in 13-to 16-and 17-to 19-
year-old adolescents and in adults in 4 experiments, using a novel dynamic risk-taking task …

Contemporary perspectives on age differences in risk taking, informed by advances in
developmental neuroscience, have emphasized the need to examine the ways in which …

From Piaget to the present, traditional and dual-process theories have predicted
improvement in reasoning from childhood to adulthood, and improvement has been …

Recent models hypothesize that adolescents' risky behavior is the consequence of
increased sensitivity to rewards in the ventral medial (VM) prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the …

Individual differences in decision making are a topic of longstanding interest, but often yield
inconsistent and contradictory results. After providing an overview of individual difference …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 40 (5) of Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (see record 2014-29520-001) …