Mushtaq, F, Hill, LJB, Bland, AR et al. (2 more authors) (2015) Commentary: Neural Correlates of Expected Risks and Returns in Risky Choice across Development. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9. 388. ISSN 1662-5161
Abstract
“Wisdom comes with age” is an oft-heard expression. It suggests that across development we improve in our ability to make decisions—but evidence for its validity is equivocal. In real-world decision-making, there is an adolescent-specific increased propensity to engage in behaviors associated with morbidity and mortality (e.g., road traffic accidents, unprotected sex, violence, drug, and alcohol abuse; Blum and Nelson-Mmari, 2004). However, this inverted u-shape developmental trajectory for risk-taking is typically not observed in laboratory-based studies (Defoe et al., 2015). As such, there exists a need to: (a) bridge the gap between laboratory and real world behavior; and (b) clarify the processes underlying developmental differences in decision-making to inform interventions that target a reduction in health-risking adolescent activities.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Mushtaq, Hill, Bland, Craddock and Boyle. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). This Document is Protected by copyright and was first published by Frontiers. All rights reserved. it is reproduced with permission |
Keywords: | decision making; risk-taking; development; fMRI; neuroscience; neuroeconomics |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2015 11:14 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2018 09:56 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00388 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Frontiers |
Identification Number: | 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00388 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87695 |