@article{ref1,
title="Peers' choices influence adolescent risk-taking especially when explicit risk information is lacking",
journal="Journal of research on adolescence",
year="2021",
author="Osmont, Anaïs and Camarda, Anaëlle and Habib, Marianne and Cassotti, Mathieu",
volume="31",
number="2",
pages="402-416",
abstract="This study examines the impact of peers' previous cautious versus risky choices on adolescents' risk-taking depending on the level of information about the risk. Adolescents completed an adaptation of the BART that manipulated social influence (cautious and risky) and risk information (i.e., informed, noninformed). <br><br>RESULTS showed that social influence impacts adolescents' decisions on the noninformed BART but not on the informed BART. In the noninformed BART, the peers' cautious choices strongly decreased risk-taking and led to greater performance. The peers' risky choices increase adolescents' risk-taking, but this effect is limited to situations involving minimal risk. Thus social experience may be a specific social context that represents a valuable source of information during adolescence, especially in situations with high uncertainty.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1050-8392",
doi="10.1111/jora.12611",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12611"
}