In their daily lives, humans can encounter many situations that can put them at a varying degree of risk, or in other words, situations in which their choices can increase or decrease the possibility ...

Recent research indicates that lower levels of the neurotransmitter may actually result in increased risk-taking.

Teenage risk-taking, such as experimentation with alcohol, cannabis, nicotine and other substances, may reflect a ...

While negative risk-taking behavior in adolescents is a classic topic, extant research has long spent little attention to the positive aspects of adolescents’ development. One topic that started to ...

Situations involving risk are common in human affairs, from financial investments, criminal behavior, and health-related decisions. Peoples’ self-reported risk preferences, where individuals in ...

Study of 800+ young people found that some teen risk-taking may be driven by lower dopamine activity in the brain.

A poster that was presented in the Tenth University Research Day at the Catholic University of America in 2025. The term risk-taking carries inherent negative associations because of the potential for ...

Regular readers of the Aging Brain, Aging Body blog series, know that fall-related anxiety, or ‘fear of falling’, can increase the likelihood that an older will experience a fall. (If you haven’t read ...

A study found that chimpanzees tend to take more physical risks as infants and young animals rather than as adolescents, like humans. The researchers hypothesize that the level of care humans provide ...

Lauren Leffer: The link between our genes and our selves is complicated. We know the DNA coded in our cells is part of what makes each of us who we are. Tulika Bose: But genes aren’t the whole story ...

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