While negative risk-taking behavior in adolescents is a classic topic, extant research has long spent little attention to the positive aspects of adolescents’ development. One topic that started to ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph.D. Why adolescent risk-taking? For example, four middle schoolers are caught late at night skateboarding a deserted downtown parking garage. What's the appeal of such an ...

The Social Risk Hypothesis of Depression proposes that individuals who perceive themselves as low in value to their social groups are at risk of developing depression. Behaviourally, lower ...

Once a month I have been meeting with a group of parents at a local middle school to discuss issues about adolescence. They choose the topic, I take a few minutes to frame it for discussion, and then ...

Study of 800+ young people found that some teen risk-taking may be driven by lower dopamine activity in the brain.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Recent research indicates that lower levels of the neurotransmitter may actually result in increased risk-taking.

To understand some of the difficulties inherent in promoting safer sexual practices (or even abstinence) among adolescents, it is helpful to become familiar with cognitive and interpersonal factors ...

AI representational photo A Stage of Life That Shapes Us Forever Almost everyone remembers adolescence as one of the most ...

The so-called salt and ice challenge involves precisely those two ingredients: Participants apply salt to a section of skin, then press ice cubes on top of the salt. The mixture of salt and ice ...