But is helping you worth the risk? Defining Prosocial Risk Taking in adolescence

But is helping you worth the risk? Defining Prosocial Risk Taking in adolescence

Recent work has shown that the same neural circuitry that typically underlies risky behaviors also contributes to prosocial behaviors. Despite the striking overlap between two seemingly distinct behavioral patterns, little is known about how risk taking and prosociality interact and inform adolescent decision making. We review literature on adolescent brain development as it pertains to risk ta...

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این پژوهش به بررسی ریسک پذیری مترجمان تازه کار در طی فرآیند ترجمه از زبان انگلیسی به فارسی می پردازد. پژوهش درباره مترجمان به عنوان اولین خواننده متن مبدا از اهمیت به سزایی برخوردار است. مترجمان تازه کار (و حرفه ای) در طی فرآیند ترجمه با مشکلات متعددی روبرو می شوند که باعث عدم اطمینان آنها از متن ترجمه شده می شود. با توجه به اینکه عدم اطمینان به انجام ریسک منتهی می شود، هدف این پژوهش بررسی کیفی...

Adolescence: a time of risk taking.

The Consequences of State-Level Intrusions: A Risk Worth Taking?

Over the years states have intruded the cyberspace of other states. Does the offending state consider the consequences it may face for the intrusion under international law and/or at international level? Is the position at present so uncertain that a state may decide that the risk is worth taking in view of the problems experienced with establishing attribution or is the injured state being sec...

The Personal Fable and Risk-Taking in Early Adolescence

Elkind’s (1967) theory of adolescent egocentrism proposes two distinct, but related, constructs – the imaginary audience and the personal fable. A corollary to the imaginary audience, the personal fable (PF) yields a sense of invulnerability and speciality commonly associated with behavioral risk-taking. When regarded as a developmental phenomenon, risk-taking is thought to be the result of cog...