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Explaining Adolescents’ Penchant For Risky Behaviors

October 3, 2012 by

It is widely believed that adolescents engage in risky behaviors because of an innate tolerance for risks, but a study by researchers at New York University, Yale's School of Medicine, and Fordham University has found this is not the case. Their findings show adolescents appear to differ from their older peers in the taste for the uncertain...

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