Highlights•We examine how trajectories of brain development shape adolescent decision
processes.•Prolonged prefrontal development may constrain multiple component processes …

The current paper reviews four research perspectives that have been used to investigate the
development of risk-taking. Cognitive developmental research has investigated the …

Adolescence is a period of life in which peer relationships become increasingly important.
Adolescents have a greater likelihood of taking risks when they are with peers rather than …

The impact that COVID-19 had on individuals globally has been immense. Our study aims to
determine if the various COVID-19 related beliefs (information seeking; invulnerability; …

Crime, smoking, drug use, alcoholism, reckless driving, and many other unhealthy patterns
of behavior that play out over a lifetime often debut during adolescence. Avoiding risks or …

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

We study the effect of subjective mortality beliefs on life‐cycle behavior. With new survey
evidence, we document that survival is underestimated (overestimated) by the young (old) …

Adolescence is a risky business. Despite outstanding physical health, the risk of injury or
death during adolescence is 2–3 times that of childhood. The primary cause of this increase …

The huge and fractured literature on adolescence challenges both students and scholars.
For students there is too much to learn and too little coherence across topics to enable …

In this article, the authors review basic research on adolescent development in
neuroscience, psychology, and marketing. The findings indicate that adolescents are more …