Observational studyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Valuation of peers' safe choices is associated with substance-naïveté in adolescents.
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- Distinct patterns of social contagion under risk and ambiguity.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Determinants of Rule-Breaking in Adolescence.Journal of adolescence · 2025Article
- Internal uncertainty impacts social information use in risky choice across adolescence.Communications psychology · 2025Article
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- Modulating social learning-induced evaluation updating during human sleep.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
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- Aberrant neural computation of social controllability in nicotine-dependent humans.Research square · 2024Article
- Persistent impacts of smoking on resting-state EEG in male chronic smokers and past-smokers with 20 years of abstinence.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Social influence in adolescence as a double-edged sword.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Characterization of the Core Determinants of Social Influence From a Computational and Cognitive Perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- The hierarchical sensitivity to social misalignment during decision-making under uncertainty.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Social influences on decision-making are particularly pronounced during adolescence and have both protective and detrimental effects. To evaluate how responsiveness to social signals may be linked to substance use in adolescents, we used functional neuroimaging and a gambling task in which adolescents who have and have not used substances (substance-exposed and substance-naïve, respectively) made choices alone and after observing peers' decisions. Using quantitative model-based analyses, we identify behavioral and neural evidence that observing others' safe choices increases the subjective value and selection of safe options for substance-naïve relative to substance-exposed adolescents. Moreover, the effects of observing others' risky choices do not vary by substance exposure. These results provide neurobehavioral evidence for a role of positive peers (here, those who make safer choices) in guiding adolescent real-world risky decision-making.
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