The effect of social rank feedback on risk taking and associated reward processes in adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT: The onset of adolescence is associated with an increased tendency to engage in risky behaviors and a developmental shift toward peers that contributes to increased prioritization for learning about and achieving social status. There is relatively little understanding about the specific links between these adolescent-typical phenomena, particularly regarding their neural underpinnings. Based on existing models that suggest the role of puberty in promoting adolescent status-seeking and risk-taking tendencies, we investigated the relation of pubertal hormones with behavioral and neural responses to status-relevant social information in the context of risk taking. We used a probabilistic decision task in which 11- to 13-year-old girls chose to take a risk, or not, while receiving either social

SUBMITTER: Op de Macks ZA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5390714 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature