Elizabeth Cauffman

TL;DR: Age differences in sensation seeking and impulsivity in a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse sample of 935 individuals between the ages of 10 and 30 are examined, showing a curvilinear pattern and suggesting Heightened vulnerability to risk taking in middle adolescence may be due to the combination of relatively higher inclinations to seek excitement and relatively immature capacities for self-control.

TL;DR: Age differences in future orientation are examined in a sample of 935 individuals between 10 and 30 years using a delay discounting task as well as a new self-report measure to distinguish between future orientation and impulse control, which may have different neural underpinnings and follow different developmental timetables.

TL;DR: Findings call into question recent arguments, derived from studies of logical reasoning, that adolescents and adults are equally competent and that laws and social policies should treat them as such.

TL;DR: This article examined research and theory on three psychosocial aspects of maturity of judgment: responsibility, temperance, and perspective, and found that the greatest differences are found in comparisons between early adolescents versus middle and late adolescents.

TL;DR: The finding that adolescents, compared to adults, are relatively more approach oriented in response to positive feedback and less avoidant in responseto negative feedback is consistent with recent studies of brain development, as well as epidemiological data on various types of risky behavior, and may have important practical implications for the prevention of adolescent risk taking.