Psychology: Good and bad news on the adolescent brain
Abstract
In response to bad news about risk, young adolescents alter estimates of their own vulnerability to adverse events less accurately than older people. The finding has implications for managing risk-taking behaviour in young people.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 2013
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2013Natur.503...48R