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Behavioral Assessment of Emotion Discrimination, Emotion Regulation, and Cognitive Control in Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood
This study examined how cognitive control, or regulating one's behavior, develops from childhood through adulthood. It found that the ability to maintain cognitive control improves with age, especially when emotional information is present.
Cognitive Control in Adolescence: Neural Underpinnings and Relation to Self-Report Behaviors
This study investigates how proactive and reactive brain control systems develop from adolescence into adulthood. Researchers used a Stroop Task and self-report surveys to examine brain activity and real-world behavior.
Frontostriatal Maturation Predicts Cognitive Control Failure to Appetitive Cues in Adolescents
Research suggests adolescent risk-taking is linked to an imbalance in brain development. Brain regions seeking rewards mature faster than those controlling impulses, leading to heightened risk behaviors.
Peers Increase Adolescent Risk Taking by Enhancing Activity in the Brain’s Reward Circuitry
Teenagers take more risks than adults, especially when friends are present. This behavior likely stems from two brain systems developing at different rates during adolescence.
Adolescent Brain Development and Drugs
Adolescent brains are still developing, especially the parts for logical reasoning and impulse control. This makes young people more prone to risk-taking and vulnerable to drug use, particularly in emotional or peer-influenced situations.
Braking and Accelerating of the Adolescent Brain
Adolescents act more impulsively and engage in riskier behavior than adults. This behavior stems from an imbalance in brain development, where emotion-driven regions mature faster than areas responsible for self-control.
Early Health Risk Factors for Violence: Conceptualization, Evidence, and Implications
Research on violence and aggression has overlooked early childhood health factors, especially prenatal ones. Current theories often miss integrating social, biological, and health risk factors in understanding how these behaviors develop.
Juvenile Justice in the US: Facts for Policymakers
Adolescent brains are still developing, impacting decision-making and increasing risk-taking. Incarceration in traditional facilities harms many nonviolent youth and fails to provide needed services, contributing to re-arrests.
Maturation of Limbic Corticostriatal Activation and Connectivity Associated with Developmental Changes in Temporal Discounting
The article examines how foresighted adaptive behavior and self-control develop through adolescence. It notes that impulsivity and risk-taking are common in this period, and it explores how the brain matures to affect these behaviors.
'Willpower' Over the Life Span: Decomposing Self-Regulation
Early "marshmallow test" studies found that children's ability to delay gratification predicted better outcomes in adulthood, including higher SAT scores and coping skills. The research now examines the biological basis of self-regulation.
Adolescent Brain Development and the Risk for Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
During adolescence, the brain undergoes significant changes, including the growth of areas linked to complex thinking and emotions. These developmental changes also make the adolescent brain more vulnerable to environmental influences.
Adolescent Development of the Reward System
Adolescents exhibit increased reward-seeking behavior due to changes in the brain's reward system. The striatum, a dopamine-rich area, becomes more sensitive to rewards during this developmental period.
Can Adolescents Learn Self-control? Delay of Gratification in the Development of Control over Risk Taking
This article explores whether the ability to delay gratification can control risky adolescent behaviors, even in highly sensation-seeking individuals. It also investigates if experiencing risky behavior can improve self-control.
Neural Plasticity of Development and Learning
The brain undergoes significant changes throughout life, influenced by both development and learning. These processes are intertwined, with development largely shaped by expected experiences and learning by individual-specific experiences.
Differential Effects of Adult Court Transfer on Juvenile Offender Recidivism
Transferring adolescent offenders to adult court often increases their likelihood of re-offending. Research suggests transferred youth may re-offend at higher rates and for more serious crimes.