I've Never Eaten That. Let Me Try It.

Stephanie Coontz: The stage of life where people are most risk taking and most novelty seeking is not our age, it's tea natures. She says research by robert spolski argues that we get less open to novelty as we get older. But wouldn't it be nice for me and you and masha to be able to turn off that default setting and embrace more novelty, even when we're feeling unadventurous? she asks.