In their daily lives, humans can encounter many situations that can put them at a varying degree of risk, or in other words, situations in which their choices can increase or decrease the possibility ...

A poster that was presented in the Tenth University Research Day at the Catholic University of America in 2025. The term risk-taking carries inherent negative associations because of the potential for ...

Teenage risk-taking, such as experimentation with alcohol, cannabis, nicotine and other substances, may reflect a compensatory response to lower baseline dopamine, the brain chemical for reward ...

Adolescents who use social media such as Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok every day are more likely to engage in risky behavior, according to a new study. Children as young as 10 are at greater ...

Regular readers of the Aging Brain, Aging Body blog series, know that fall-related anxiety, or ‘fear of falling’, can increase the likelihood that an older will experience a fall. (If you haven’t read ...

Lauren Leffer: The link between our genes and our selves is complicated. We know the DNA coded in our cells is part of what makes each of us who we are. Tulika Bose: But genes aren’t the whole story ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison University expected to find risky behavior to peak in adolescence in a study of ...

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A study found that chimpanzees tend to take more physical risks as infants and young animals rather than as adolescents, like humans. The researchers hypothesize that the level of care humans provide ...

Is beauty fixed or malleable? It is hard not to admit the pervasive impact that beauty has in our lives. As of 2023, beauty is the third most popular category among global Instagram influencers, only ...