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December 22, 2006

Risk and Rationality in Adolescent Decision Making Implications for Theory, Practice, and Public Policy

In this monograph, instead of reviewing or meta-analyzing the literature in the field of adolescent risk, Reyna and Farley provide what the field needs much more—a metatheoretical reorientation. Two of their major metatheoretical choices are, I think, exactly right: the emphasis on a broad theory of rationality and the emphasis on dual-process models of cognition. Reyna and Farley rightly see that assumptions about rationality partly determine the scientific theories that dominate the field at any given point in time.

Posted by Gary Holden at December 22, 2006 5:04 PM