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Susceptibility to Peer Influence, Social Exclusion, and Adolescent Risky Decisions

Peake, Shannon (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

Understanding the mechanisms of poor decision making and risk behavior in adolescence is an important goal. Two important features of adolescence relevant to these concerns are the saliency of social acceptance and increased ...
What’s bad is easy: Taboo values, affect, and cognition

Lichtenstein, Sarah; Gregory, Robin; Irwin, Julie (Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2007-06)

Some decision situations are so objectionable or repugnant that people refuse to make a choice. This paper seeks to better understand taboo responses, and to distinguish choices that are truly taboo from those that are ...