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Civilian PTSD Symptoms and Risk for Involvement in the Criminal Justice System
Inner-city residents experience higher rates of trauma exposure and PTSD. This study explores the link between civilian PTSD and incarceration in an inner-city adult population.
Youth Are More Vulnerable to False Memories Than Middle-Aged Adults Due to Liberal Response Bias
This study found that young adults are more susceptible to forming false memories than middle-aged adults. This vulnerability may stem from underdeveloped neural systems impacting decision-making and cognitive control.
Interview and interrogation methods and their effects on true and false confessions
Research on interview methods shows accusatorial tactics increase false confessions, while information-gathering methods protect the innocent and still elicit true confessions.
Addiction, Adolescence, and the Integration of Control and Motivation
Adolescence involves significant shifts in motivation and impulse control. These changes can lead to increased risky behaviors, like substance abuse, due to an imbalance between strong emotions and developing self-regulation skills.
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 decision making: Reduced culpability in the criminal justice system and recognition of capability in other legal contexts
This article argues for increased adolescent autonomy in medical decisions, while simultaneously advocating for reduced criminal culpability for teenagers. Different legal approaches are justified by these varying contexts.