ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2017
But is helping you worth the risk? Defining Prosocial Risk Taking in adolescence.
Review in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Incorporating the social context into neurocognitive models of adolescent decision-making: A neuroimaging meta-analysis.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Understanding Individual Differences in Prosocial Risk-Taking During Adolescence The Roles of Prosociality, Risk-Taking, and Social Orientation.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Heterogeneity in the Joint Trajectories of Bullying Victimization and Defending Behavior among Adolescents: The Role of Anti-Bullying Attitudes and Peer Status.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- ADHD Characteristics Are Linked to Divergent Risk-Taking Behaviors.Journal of attention disorders · 2026Article
- Longitudinal and Daily Links Between Impulsivity and Prosocial Behavior: The Moderating Role of Positive Risk-Taking.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Connectome-based predictive modeling of concurrent and longitudinal substance use vulnerability in adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Dynamic Reciprocal Relationships among Rejection Sensitivity, Cognitive Reappraisal, and Prosocial Behavior in Secondary School Students.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Opposing Roles of Testosterone and Cortisol in Prosocial Risk-Taking.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Risking for Good: A Three-Wave Within-Person Analysis of the Reciprocal Relations Among Prosocial Risk Taking, Positive Risk Taking, and Prosocial Leadership.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- The mediating role of college student psychological resilience in the relationship between wisdom and psychotic-like experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Beyond risk reduction: Exploring the relation of cognitive control with adolescent positive and negative risk-taking.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
- Connectome-Based Predictive Modeling of Concurrent and Prospective Substance Use in Adolescence.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Construction and validation of the prosocial adolescent risk-taking questionnaire (PAR-Q).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Defending Behavior and Victimization: Between- and Within-Person Associations.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Positive and negative risk-taking behaviors in adolescents: Distinct characteristics, interrelationships, and influencing factors.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- The development of prosocial risk-taking behavior: Mechanisms and opportunities.Child development perspectives · 2025Article
- Positive risk taking across the world.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
- Mental Health Modulates Associations Between Institutional Belonging and Substance Use Risk.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
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- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
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Abstract
Recent work has shown that the same neural circuitry that typically underlies risky behaviors also contributes to prosocial behaviors. Despite the striking overlap between two seemingly distinct behavioral patterns, little is known about how risk taking and prosociality interact and inform adolescent decision making. We review literature on adolescent brain development as it pertains to risk taking and prosociality and propose a new area of study, Prosocial Risk Taking, which suggests that adolescents can make risky decisions with the intention of helping other individuals. Given key socialization processes and ongoing neurodevelopmental changes during this time, adolescence may represent a sensitive period for the emergence of Prosocial Risk Taking, especially within a wide variety of social contexts when youth's increased sensitivity to social evaluation and belonging impacts their behaviors. Prosocial Risk Taking in adolescence is an area of study that has been overlooked in the literature, but could help explain how ontogenetic changes in the adolescent brain may create not only vulnerabilities, but also opportunities for healthy prosocial development.
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