@article{ref1,
title="Adolescent risk-taking is predicted by individual differences in cognitive control over emotional, but not non-emotional, response conflict",
journal="Cognition and emotion",
year="2016",
author="Botdorf, Morgan A. and Rosenbaum, Gail M. and Patrianakos, Jamie and Steinberg, Laurence and Chein, Jason M.",
volume="31",
number="5",
pages="972-979",
abstract="While much research on adolescent risk behaviour has focused on the development of prefrontal self-regulatory mechanisms, prior studies have elicited mixed evidence of a relationship between individual differences in the capacity for self-regulation and individual differences in risk taking. To explain these inconsistent findings, it has been suggested that the capacity for self-regulation may be, for most adolescents, adequately mature to produce adaptive behaviour in non-affective, &quot;cold&quot; circumstances, but that adolescents have a more difficult time exerting control in affective, &quot;hot&quot; contexts. To further explore this claim, the present study examined individual differences in self-control in the face of affective and non-affective response conflict, and examined whether differences in the functioning of cognitive control processes under these different conditions was related to risk taking. Participants completed a cognitive Stroop task, an emotional Stroop task, and a risky driving task known as the Stoplight game. Regression analyses showed that performance on the emotional Stroop task predicted laboratory risk-taking in the driving task, whereas performance on the cognitive Stroop task did not exhibit the same trend. This pattern of results is consistent with theories of adolescent risk-taking that emphasise the impacts of affective contextual influences on the ability to enact effective cognitive control.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0269-9931",
doi="10.1080/02699931.2016.1168285",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1168285"
}