num_pages: 378
description: In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment. Over the past 10 years, many groups - including parents, educators, policymakers, and researchers - have become concerned about the decision-making abilities of children and adolescents, asking why they make risky choices, how they can be taught to be better decision makers, and what types of age-related changes occur in decision making. This book serves as a starting point for those interested in considering new ways of thinking about the development of these issues. The purpose is to bring together the voices of several authors who are conducting cutting-edge research and developing new theoretical perspectives related to the development of judgment and decision making. The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents is divided into three This book is intended for the professional market or for graduate courses on decision making or cognitive or social development.
language: English
title: The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents
titlecomplete: The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Psychology Press