Despite evident heightened adolescent risk-taking in real-life situations, not all experimental
studies demonstrate that adolescents take more risks than children and adults on risky …

The “positivity effect” refers to an age-related trend that favors positive over negative stimuli
in cognitive processing. Relative to their younger counterparts, older people attend to and …

The so-called bias blind spot arises when people report that thinking biases are more
prevalent in others than in themselves. Bias turns out to be relatively easy to recognize in the …

This meta-analysis examined whether tendencies to use reflective and intuitive thinking
styles predicted decision performance (normatively correct responding) and decision …

Does risk taking change as a function of age? We conducted a systematic literature search
and found 29 comparisons between younger and older adults on behavioral tasks thought to …

To represent the state‐of‐the‐art in an effort to understand the relation between personality
and risk taking, we selected a popular decision task with characteristics that parallel risk …

It has been shown that in certain situations losses exert a stronger effect on behavior than
respective gains, and this has been commonly explained by the argument that losses are …

The likelihood of initiating addictive behaviors is higher during adolescence than during any
other developmental period. The differential developmental trajectories of brain regions …

While making decisions under objective risk conditions, the probabilities of the
consequences of the available options are either provided or calculable. Brand et al.(Neural …

Loss aversion, the principle that losses impact decision making more than equivalent gains,
is a fundamental idea in consumer behavior and decision making, though its existence has …