Adolescents Are More Likely to Take Risks, and That’s a Good Thing
April 17, 2019
Filed in: Exploration & Risk Taking
It's true: adolescents are more likely to take risks and more sensitive to social feedback than adults. At the DIBS Center for Cognitive Neuroscience on April 5, Center board member Dr. Adriana Galván reviewed the neuroscience and explained how these qualities are, in fact, perfectly adaptive to the developmental tasks of adolescence. Medical Xpress reports.
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