Socioeconomic status and adolescents’ risk-taking behavior: No longitudinal link or differences by neurobiological activation when anticipating social rewards

• Published in: Developmental cognitive neuroscience Vol. 72; p. 101530
• Main Authors: Armstrong-Carter, Emma, Kwon, Seh-Joo, Jorgensen, Nathan A., Prinstein, Mitchell J., Lindquist, Kristen A., Telzer, Eva H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2025; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior - physiology; Adolescent Behavior - psychology; Anticipation, Psychological - physiology; Child; Differential susceptibility; Female; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Original Research; Reward; Risk-Taking; Social Class; Socioeconomic status; Ventral striatum; Ventral Striatum - diagnostic imaging; Ventral Striatum - physiology; Within-subject analyses; Differential susceptibility; Adolescence; Ventral striatum; Socioeconomic status; Within-subject analyses; Risk-taking

This longitudinal, preregistered study investigated the hypothesis that adolescents who are raised in socioeconomic adversity engage in relatively more health-compromising risk-taking behavior during years when they show relatively heightened anticipation to social rewards. We operationalized this o...