Why do adolescents take risks?
What is the appropriate response to adolescent
risk-taking?
What is the appropriate response to adolescent
risk-taking? This Commentary for a special issue of Developmental Review, discussing a
set of papers in that issue, explores these questions with attention to changes in the
adolescent brain, to dual-processing theory, to social influences, and to fuzzy-trace
theory. It contends that adolescent risk-taking is often driven by the social meaning of
risk and caution, and that social meaning operates as a tax on or a subsidy to behavior.
Changes in social meaning present a serious collective action problem, but also a
valuable opportunity for both law and policy
Why do adolescents take risks? What is the appropriate response to adolescentrisk-taking?What is the appropriate response to adolescentrisk-taking? This Commentary for a special issue of Developmental Review, discussing aset of papers in that issue, explores these questions with attention to changes in theadolescent brain, to dual-processing theory, to social influences, and to fuzzy-tracetheory. It contends that adolescent risk-taking is often driven by the social meaning ofrisk and caution, and that social meaning operates as a tax on or a subsidy to behavior.Changes in social meaning present a serious collective action problem, but also avaluable opportunity for both law and policy
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