Do adolescents always take more risks than adults? A within-subjects developmental study of context effects on decision making and processing.
Adolescents take more risks than adults in the real world, but laboratory experiments do not consistently demonstrate this pattern. In the current study, we examine the possibility that age differences in decision making vary as a function of the nature of the task (e.g., how information about risk...
Main Authors: | Gail M Rosenbaum, Vinod Venkatraman, Laurence Steinberg, Jason M Chein |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255102 |
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