@article{ref1,
title="Age-related differences in social influence on risk perception depend on the direction of influence",
journal="Journal of Adolescence",
year="2017",
author="Knoll, Lisa J. and Leung, Jovita T. and Foulkes, Lucy and Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne",
volume="60",
number="",
pages="53-63",
abstract="Adolescents are particularly susceptible to social influence. Here, we investigated the effect of social influence on risk perception in 590 participants aged eight to fifty-nine-years tested in the United Kingdom. Participants rated the riskiness of everyday situations, were then informed about the rating of these situations from a (fictitious) social-influence group consisting of teenagers or adults, and then re-evaluated the situation. Our first aim was to attempt to replicate our previous finding that young adolescents are influenced more by teenagers than by adults. Second, we investigated the social-influence effect when the social-influence group's rating was more, or less, risky than the participants' own risk rating. Younger participants were more strongly influenced by teenagers than by adults, but only when teenagers rated a situation as more risky than did participants. This suggests that stereotypical characteristics of the social-influence group - risk-prone teenagers - interact with social influence on risk perception.<br><br>Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0140-1971",
doi="10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.07.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.07.002"
}