Real-world health and crime statistics indicate that adolescents are prone to engage in risks
in the presence of peers. Although this effect has been documented in several lab studies …

The involvement of young novice drivers in road crashes and violations has remained a
significant transport and public health issue worldwide. Despite extensive evidence that …

Peer influence plays a key role in the increase of risk‐taking behavior during adolescence.
However, its underlying processes are not fully understood. This study examined the effects …

Adolescents take more risks when peers monitor their behavior. However, it is largely
unknown how different types of peer influence affect adolescent decision‐making. In this …

Surveys concur that adolescents disproportionately engage in many real-world risk
behaviors, compared with children and adults. Recently researchers have employed …

Highlights•Peer influence is adaptive and can promote positive psychosocial
outcomes.•Peer presence elicits greater activation in reward-related areas during risk …

In line with the goal of limiting health risk behaviors in adolescence, a growing literature
investigates whether individual differences in functional brain responses can be related to …

Peers have a profound impact on sha** adolescents' attitudes and norms about the
consequences of engaging in health risk behaviors. However, not all adolescents are …

There has been strong interest, spanning several disciplines, in understanding adolescence
as a developmental period of increased risk-taking behavior. Our goals focus on one line of …

Prior studies indicated higher collision rates among young novice drivers with peer
passengers. This driving simulator study provided a test for a dual process theory of risky …