Risky Business: Executive Function, Personality, and Reckless Behavior During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 970-978

  Pharo, Henry ^a   Sim, Clark ^a   Graham, Mikala ^a   Gross, Julien ^a   Hayne, Harlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Executive function; Personality; Risky behavior

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055179981     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025768     Document Type: Article

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