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 …

Epidemiological data suggest that risk taking in the real world increases from childhood into
adolescence and declines into adulthood. However, developmental patterns of behaviour in …

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

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

Humans often face the challenge of making decisions between ambiguous options. The
level of ambiguity in decision-making has been linked to activity in the parietal cortex, but its …

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 …

Prevailing models of the development of decision-making propose that peak risk-taking
occurs in adolescence due to a neural imbalance between two processes: gradual, linearly …

Self-directed exploration in childhood appears driven by a desire to resolve uncertainties in
order to learn more about the world. However, in adult decision-making, the choice to …

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

Background: Data are conflicting regarding the effect of professional staff attire on children at
pediatric dental clinics. Aim: To compare the preferences of children and their parents in …