Dissociable effects of age and testosterone on adolescent impatience

Laube, Corinna; Suleiman, Ahna Ballonoff; Johnson, Megan; Dahl, Ronald E.; Bos, Wouter van den

doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.03.012

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“…Academic motivation was found to be significantly lower for more mature participants, which was, in turn, related to lower academic achievement. These motivational differences may be related to pubertal, hormone-related increases in impatience observed both at a behavioral (Cardoos et al, 2017;Laube, Suleiman, Johnson, Dahl, & van den Bos, 2017) and neural level (Laube, Lorenz, & van den Bos, 2020;Op De MacKs et al, 2011). These motivational differences may also reflect reasonable, and possibly adaptive, responses to living in more uncertain social contexts (Frankenhuis & Nettle, 2019).…”

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Is early good or bad? Early puberty onset and its consequences for learning

Laube

Fuhrmann

2020

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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Entering puberty at a relatively young age is often thought to be associated with negative outcomes, such as poorer cardiovascular and psychosocial health. However, the literature on the relationship between early puberty, learning and academic achievement is inconclusive. Previous work suggests both positive and negative outcomes of early puberty. We here review recent findings on the relationship between early puberty and cognitive outcomes and integrate these findings into larger theoretical frameworks of pubertal development. We argue that differences in observed outcomes may be explained by domain-and context-specific effects. Early maturation may be linked to positive as well as negative cognitive outcomes, depending on the domain studied, and appears to be influenced by the wider social context, with less supportive environments associated with poorer outcomes for early maturers.

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Is early good or bad? Early puberty onset and its consequences for learning

Laube

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2020

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“…However, to our knowledge, this has never been directly tested. The advantage of dual parameters models is that they allow us to be more specific about the mechanisms that contribute to an in- or decrease in impulsive choices, which are thought to be the end result of several different psychological processes (Laube, Suleiman, Johnson, Dahl, & van den Bos, 2017; van den Bos & McClure, 2013)…”

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It’s about time: How integral affect increases impatience.

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2020

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Affect is integral to most decisions involving temptation. For instance, people may have difficulty saving for a house because they keep spending money on enjoyable, but more immediate items and events (e.g., fancy dinners). Little is known about how affect influences these types of intertemporal decisions. On the one hand, studies investigating the influence of incidental affect (i.e., affect that is unrelated to a decision, such as a person's mood) suggest that positive affect leads to increased impatience. On the other hand, studies on the role of integral affect (i.e., affect that is caused by the decision itself) in risky choice suggest a stronger focus on outcomes, which would result in increased patience. This investigation uses a delay discounting task to test whether integral affect is related to impatient behavior. In addition, it examines how affect impacts time perception. In a within-subjects design, choices between options with relatively affect-rich and relatively affect-poor outcomes were compared. Participants also completed a future time judgment task. Across 2 studies (N ϭ 23 and N ϭ 56), findings consistently showed that positive affect leads to changes in time perception. Participants judged future durations to be longer when considering options associated with high positive affect than when considering options with lower positive affect. In addition, in the second study we found evidence that affect impacts time attribute weighting. Importantly, our results suggest that changes in future time judgment may influence the propensity to make impatient choices without changing discounting per se.

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“…Here, we applied a longitudinal design in a large cohort of adolescents and young adults to study peer influence on a well characterised task assessing inter-temporal preferences. Inter-temporal ('delay') discounting is a key measure of temporal impulsivity, which has been shown repeatedly to decrease from childhood to young adulthood [28][29][30] . Longitudinal designs are important for addressing developmental questions as they provide a basis for disentangling cohort or sampling effects from developmental trajectories.…”

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Preference uncertainty accounts for developmental effects on susceptibility to peer influence in adolescence

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Adolescents are prone to social influence from peers, with implications for development, both adaptive and maladaptive. Here, using a computer-based paradigm, we replicate a cross-sectional effect of more susceptibility to peer influence in a large dataset of adolescents 14 to 24 years old. Crucially, we extend this finding by adopting a longitudinal perspective, showing that a within-person susceptibility to social influence decreases over a 1.5 year follow-up time period. Exploiting this longitudinal design, we show that susceptibility to social influences at baseline predicts an improvement in peer relations over the follow-up period. Using a Bayesian computational model, we demonstrate that in younger adolescents a greater tendency to adopt others’ preferences arises out of a higher uncertainty about their own preferences in the paradigmatic case of delay discounting (a phenomenon called ‘preference uncertainty’). This preference uncertainty decreases over time and, in turn, leads to a reduced susceptibility of one’s own behaviour to an influence from others. Neuro-developmentally, we show that a measure of myelination within medial prefrontal cortex, estimated at baseline, predicts a developmental decrease in preference uncertainty at follow-up. Thus, using computational and neural evidence, we reveal adaptive mechanisms underpinning susceptibility to social influence during adolescence.

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Dissociable effects of age and testosterone on adolescent impatience

Cited by 24 publications

References 46 publications

Is early good or bad? Early puberty onset and its consequences for learning

Is early good or bad? Early puberty onset and its consequences for learning

It’s about time: How integral affect increases impatience.

Preference uncertainty accounts for developmental effects on susceptibility to peer influence in adolescence

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