Is Jumping off the Roof "Always" a Bad Idea? A Rejoinder on Risk Taking and the Adolescent Brain

Autor/in	Males, Mike A.
Titel	Is Jumping off the Roof "Always" a Bad Idea? A Rejoinder on Risk Taking and the Adolescent Brain
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent Research, 25 (2010) 1, S.48-63 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-5584
DOI	10.1177/0743558409353780
Schlagwörter	Brain; Adolescents; At Risk Persons; Biology; Theories; Developmental Stages; Violence; Self Control; Poverty; Correlation; Age Differences; Racial Differences; Traffic Safety; Motor Vehicles; Crime; African Americans; Whites; Hispanic Americans; Asian Americans; Brain Hemisphere Functions; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gehirn; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Risikogruppe; Biologie; Theory; Theorie; Gewalt; Selbstbeherrschung; Armut; Korrelation; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Rassenunterschied; Motor vehicle; Kraftwagen; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Kalifornien
Abstract	Three respondents provide cogent commentary on the author's first article, "Does the Adolescent Brain Make Risk Taking Inevitable? A Skeptical Appraisal." Two respondent papers argue that the author mischaracterized valid and useful developmental and biological arguments affirming adolescents' singular risk propensities; the third response raises innovative biological perspectives suggesting unique adolescent brain abilities that strongly challenge current developmental discourse. In his rejoinder to the three respondents, the author presents new statistical and biological data to argue that current adolescent-risk theories will not survive rigorous, age-comparative socioeconomic analyses, objective inventories of cognitive capacities across the life span, and long overdue concession that grown-up outcomes show "risk taking" is not just (or even mainly) an adolescent event. (Contains 3 tables, 1 figure and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10