Information about others' choices selectively alters risk tolerance and medial prefrontal cortex activation across adolescence and young adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is associated with major changes in the cognitive, emotional and social domains. One domain in which these processes intersect is decision-making. Previous research has shown that individuals' attitudes towards risk and ambiguity shape their decision-making, and information about others' choices can influence individuals' decisions. However, it is currently unknown how information about others' choices influences risk and ambiguity attitudes separately, and the degree to which others' choices shape decision-making differentially across development from adolescence to young adulthood. The current study used a computational modeling framework to test how information about others' choices influences these attitudes. Participants, aged 14-22 years, made a series of risky and ambigu

SUBMITTER: Braams BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8607164 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature