Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Antisocial conduct and decision making about aggressive behavior influence each other in teens / eurekalert.org, 25 March 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/sfri-aca031908.php
"A new study challenges the idea that antisocial behavior is relatively unchangeable during the teenage years. The study found that decision making and behavior among adolescents are related across time, and that efforts to help may be more effective if they address how adolescents make decisions about acting aggressively."
Testing an Individual Systems Model of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior Across Adolescence
Child Development, March/April 2008, Vol. 79 Issue 2, pp 462-475
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01136.x
Reid Griffith Fontaine, Chongming Yang, Kenneth A. Dodge et al
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