Dodd's "Beautiful Teenage Brains" RRR

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In the scientific article, “Beautiful Teenage Brains” (2005), David Dodds argues that a teenager’s risk-taking tendency
doesn’t come from their underdeveloped brain but by other thought processes.
He does this by gathering evidence and research from people who have studied the phenomena.
He argues his point in order to convince adults that teenagers make decisions involving risk-taking in a different way.
As I have stated before, the intended audience is most likely adults that have teenagers as kids.


The author of this article claims that teenagers take the same amount of risks adults take unless they feel there will be a reward.
I disagree. I think that some teenagers take less risks than adults and some more.
Saying that all teenagers are risk takers is not necessarily true.
While the author did relate his ideas to some research that involved his ideas, I do not feel that this
research truly reflects how teenagers take risks compared to adults.


By including many statistics and reports Dodd shows how teenagers are more likely to take risks in life compared to other age groups.  
He states how that the teenage mentality is that if they can get something that they want through risks they would do it because
they look more towards the reward and disregard the risks that they are taking.  
“Teens take more risks because they weigh risk versus rewards differently compared to adults.”  
Teenagers do not weigh the risks and rewards the same way as adults do.  
Adults would look at whether the risks are worth taking to get the reward.  
Adults have more experience than teenagers do and they think further into the future.  
Not only do they look at the immediate consequences they also look at future consequences that might arise.


Dodds, David. Beautiful Teenage Brains, 2005. Launchpad Solo.

http://www.macmillanhighered.com/launchpadsolo/readwrite/7385790/Home#/launchpad/
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