In response to bad news about risk, young adolescents alter estimates of their own vulnerability to adverse events less accurately than older people. The finding has implications for managing risk-taking behaviour in young people.
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Reyna, V. Good and bad news on the adolescent brain. Nature 503, 48–49 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12704
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