Explore with Me: Peer Observation Decreases Risk-Taking but Increases Exploration Tendencies across Adolescence.

ABSTRACT: It has been assumed that adolescents increase risk-taking tendencies when peers are present but findings on experimental decision-making have been inconclusive. Most studies focus on risk-taking tendencies, ignoring the effects peer presence can exert over other cognitive processes involved in decision-making, as well as any other underlying developmental and individual differences. In the present study, the trial-by-trial choice behavior was analyzed in a task in which adolescents adjust to dynamically changing risk probabilities. Using Bayesian modeling, the study aimed to infer about peer presence effects on risk-taking tendencies but also on reactions to, exploration of, and learning from positive and negative outcomes of risk-taking. 184 pre- to late adolescents (M = 14.09 years, min

SUBMITTER: Lorenz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9279204 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature