
The Mystery of the Teenage Brain
Curious Cases
Do Teens Take More Risks Than Adults?
Experimental evidence four risk taking and teen ages. It comes from the sky called steinberg. Is the carrac they use car racing video games, so big simulations. And he gets teen age boys and adults to play these racing games. The key thing here is it really is dependent on who is also present when they're doing the racing games. So they're either alone or with someone watching them. Andwhat he d is that adolescents take more risks. But whereas the adults took the same number of risks regardless of whether they were alone or being spied upon. Oke the idea then is that teams do take more risks, but only in specific circumstances, not just in general.
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