Development of Risk-Taking, Perspective-Taking, and Inhibitory Control During Adolescence

Development of Risk-Taking, Perspective-Taking, and Inhibitory Control During Adolescence.

Structural and functional brain development is thought to lead to different developmental progressions of cognitive control, risk/reward processing, and social cognition during adolescence. We compared these abilities in a cross-sectional sample of 90 adolescents aged 12, 15, or 17 years old, using computerized measures of inhibitory control (Go/No-Go task), risk-taking (Balloon Analogue Risk t...

Development of Risk-Taking Tendency Tool for High School Students

Background: Adolescence is the age of increased sensation-seeking and risk-taking. To prevent such behaviors, the adolescent tendency to engage in high-risk behaviors must be measureable. This study aimed to develop a questionnaire about risk-taking tendencies among Iranian students.Methods: This study was conducted using cluster sampling of the tenth-grade students in three cities in Kerman pr...

Adolescence: a time of risk taking.

A Control Perspective on Imaginal Perspective Taking

This contribution presents a computational cognitive model of imaginal perspective taking (IPT). The model is shown to account for major effects observed in IPT as well as concrete human data from an IPT experiment. Model development was based on the observation that control mechanisms play a central role in IPT performance. In taking this approach, model development and the model itself reveal...

The Personal Fable and Risk-Taking in Early Adolescence

Elkind’s (1967) theory of adolescent egocentrism proposes two distinct, but related, constructs – the imaginary audience and the personal fable. A corollary to the imaginary audience, the personal fable (PF) yields a sense of invulnerability and speciality commonly associated with behavioral risk-taking. When regarded as a developmental phenomenon, risk-taking is thought to be the result of cog...