Risk taking in adolescence - New perspectives from brain and behavioral science
Risk taking in adolescence - New perspectives from brain and behavioral science
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00475.x
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发表时间：
2007-04-01
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Steinberg, Laurence
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作者：
Steinberg, Laurence
试图理解为什么青少年和年轻人比年轻人或老年人承担更多的风险，几十年来一直挑战着心理学家。青少年从事危险行为的倾向似乎并不是因为非理性、刀枪不入的错觉或无知。本文从发展神经科学的角度对青少年的冒险行为进行了研究。根据这一观点，青春期（它促使青少年寻求刺激）和认知控制系统（它调节这些冲动）的缓慢成熟之间的时间差距，使青春期成为危险行为的高度脆弱时期。这种青少年冒险的观点有助于解释为什么旨在改变青少年知识、信仰或态度的教育干预措施在很大程度上是无效的，并表明改变风险行为发生的环境可能比改变青少年对风险的看法更成功。
Trying to understand why adolescents and young adults take more risks than younger or older individuals do has challenged psychologists for decades. Adolescents' inclination to engage in risky behavior does not appear to be due to irrationality, delusions of invulnerability, or ignorance. This paper presents a perspective on adolescent risk taking grounded in developmental neuroscience. According to this view, the temporal gap between puberty, which impels adolescents toward thrill seeking, and the slow maturation of the cognitive-control system, which regulates these impulses, makes adolescence a time of heightened vulnerability for risky behavior. This view of adolescent risk taking helps to explain why educational interventions designed to change adolescents' knowledge, beliefs, or attitudes have been largely ineffective, and suggests that changing the contexts in which risky behavior occurs may be more successful than changing the way adolescents think about risk.