A 7-year longitudinal study found that adolescents who experienced more unpredictable life events tend to show higher levels of activation in the frontoparietal region of the brain during a cognitive ...

Source: SarahLynn., Flickr April 7, 2011. When parents visit my school they often hear me use the phrase profitable risk to describe a core institutional belief in constant learning. In the zero to ...

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 ...

Excessive risk-taking can result in dire outcomes, including bankruptcy, physical injury, and death. Many such acts are speculatively traced back to a sequence of smaller instances of risk-taking that ...