Adolescent Risk-Taking and Social Meaning: A Commentary
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Cass R. Sunstein, Adolescent Risk-Taking and Social Meaning: A Commentary, 28 Developmental Rev. 145 (2008).Abstract
Why do adolescents take risks? What is the appropriate response to adolescent risk-taking? This Commentary for a special issue of Developmental Review, discussing a set of papers in that issue, explores these questions with attention to changes in the adolescent brain, to dual-processing theory, to social influences, and to fuzzy-trace theory. It contends that adolescent risk-taking is often driven by the social meaning of risk and caution, and that social meaning operates as a tax on or a subsidy to behavior. Changes in social meaning present a serious collective action problem, but also a valuable opportunity for both law and policy.Other Sources
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1087144http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/law_and_economics/32/
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