ArticleCurrent directions in psychological science2020
Modernizing conceptions of valuation and cognitive control deployment in adolescent risk taking.
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- Positive risk taking and neural sensitivity to risky decision making in adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Explore with Me: Peer Observation Decreases Risk-Taking but Increases Exploration Tendencies across Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Cognitive control deployment is flexibly modulated by social value in early adolescence.Developmental science · 2022Article
- Modeling changes in probabilistic reinforcement learning during adolescence.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Expectations of Social Consequences Impact Anticipated Involvement in Health-Risk Behavior During Adolescence.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2020Article
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Abstract
Heightened risk taking in adolescence has long been attributed to valuation systems overwhelming the deployment of cognitive control. However, this explanation of why adolescents engage in risk taking is insufficient given increasing evidence that risk-taking behavior can be strategic and involve elevated cognitive control. We argue that applying the Expected Value of Control (EVC; Shenhav, Botvinick, & Cohen, 2013) computational model to adolescent risk taking can clarify under what conditions control is elevated or diminished during risky decision making. Through this lens, we review research examining when adolescent risk taking might be due to-rather than a failure of-effective cognitive control and suggest compelling ways to test such hypotheses. This effort can not only resolve when risk taking arises from an immaturity of the control system itself versus differences in what adolescents value relative to adults, but also identify promising avenues for channeling cognitive control towards adaptive outcomes in adolescence.
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