Adolescents' heightened risk-seeking in a probabilistic gambling task

Cognitive Development

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-196

  Burnett, Stephanie ^a,b   Bault, Nadège ^c   Coricelli, Giorgio ^c   Blakemore, Sarah Jayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Decision making; Development; Emotion; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952242861     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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