Psychology & Psychiatry
This is your teen's brain behind the wheel
A new study of teenagers and their moms reveals how adolescent brains negotiate risk - and the factors that modulate their risk-taking behind the wheel.
Apr 22, 2015
0
51
Page 2 - News tagged with risky decision
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Researchers develop approach for early diagnosis of dementia
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a unique method of diagnosing the earliest stages of dementia by applying tasks commonly used to gauge levels of impulsive or risky behaviors related ...
Oct 10, 2014
0
0
Psychology & Psychiatry
Why people with bipolar disorder are bigger risk-takers
Researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool has shown that circuits in the brain involved in pursuing and relishing rewarding experiences are more strongly activated in people with bipolar disorder - guiding ...
Jul 8, 2014
0
0
Psychology & Psychiatry
Imaging examines risky decision making on brains of methamphetamine users
Methamphetamine users showed less sensitivity to risk and reward in one region of the brain and greater sensitivity in other brain regions compared with non-users when performing an exercise involving risky decision making.
May 21, 2014
0
0
Psychology & Psychiatry
Study: Agents like Snowden prone to irrational decision making
U.S. intelligence agents – like the embattled Edward Snowden – are more prone to irrational inconsistencies in decision making when compared to college students and post-college adults. That's according a new Cornell ...
Jul 9, 2013
3
0
Health
Predicting risky sexual behavior
A recent study by a team of researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas found that risky sexual behavior can be predicted by cultural, socioeconomic and individual mores in conjunction with how one views themselves.
May 16, 2013
0
0
Psychology & Psychiatry
Teens don't like danger, just don't understand consequences, study shows
(Medical Xpress)—A new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues finds that adolescents commonly take more risks than younger children and adults because they are more willing to accept risks when ...
Oct 12, 2012
0
0
Psychology & Psychiatry
Washing away good and bad luck
Research by marketing professor shows risk taking depends on whether participants recalled past episode of good or bad luck and whether they washed their hands.
Jul 20, 2011
0
0
Psychology & Psychiatry
Is the description-experience gap in risky choice limited to rare events?
Psychology researchers at the University of Alberta have found an interesting wrinkle in the decision- making process people use when gambling: People confronted with risky choices respond differently when they rely on past ...
Jun 2, 2011
0
0
Health
Football coaching should be tailored for teenage brains, research says
Creating the next generation of football stars may be down to understanding the teenage brain, according to new research from the University of Bristol. The study, published in the FA [Football Association] journal The Boot ...
Oct 9, 2012
0
0
.jpg)
