Ann T. Skinner

Publications [#354812] of Ann T. Skinner

Journal Articles

  1. Icenogle, G and Steinberg, L and Olino, TM and Shulman, EP and Chein, J and Alampay, LP and Al-Hassan, SM and Takash, HMS and Bacchini, D and Chang, L and Chaudhary, N and Di Giunta, L and Dodge, KA and Fanti, KA and Lansford, JE and Malone, PS and Oburu, P and Pastorelli, C and Skinner, AT and Sorbring, E and Tapanya, S and Uribe Tirado, LM, Puberty Predicts Approach But Not Avoidance on the Iowa Gambling Task in a Multinational Sample., Child development, vol. 88 no. 5 (September, 2017), pp. 1598--1614, ISSN 0009-3920 (Print-Electronic.) [doi]
    (last updated on 2021/01/29)

    Abstract:
    According to the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking, sensation seeking and impulse control follow different developmental trajectories across adolescence and are governed by two different brain systems. The authors tested whether different underlying processes also drive age differences in reward approach and cost avoidance. Using a modified Iowa Gambling Task in a multinational, cross-sectional sample of 3,234 adolescents (ages 9-17; M = 12.87, SD = 2.36), pubertal maturation, but not age, predicted reward approach, mediated through higher sensation seeking. In contrast, age, but not pubertal maturation, predicted increased cost avoidance, mediated through greater impulse control. These findings add to evidence that adolescent behavior is best understood as the product of two interacting, but independently developing, brain systems.