The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents

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Contents: Preface. Part I: Cognitive Developmental Approaches to Judgment and Decision Making. J.P. Byrnes, The Development of Self-Regulated Decision Making. P.A. Klaczynski, Metacognition and Cognitive Variability: A Dual-Process Model of Decision Making and Its Development. V.F. Reyna, M.B. Adam, K.M. Poirier, C.W. LeCroy, C.J. Brainerd, Risky Decision Making in Childhood and Adolescence: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory Approach. K.E. Stanovich, Commentary: Development and Decisions. Part II: Contextual Influences on Decision Making. E. Amsel, T. Bowden, J. Cottrell, J. Sullivan, Anticipating and Avoiding Regret as a Model of Adolescent Decision Making. J.E. Jacobs, K.E. Johnston, Everyone Else Is Doing It: Relations Between Bias in Base-Rate Estimates and Involvement in Deviant Behaviors. C.C. Helwig, Culture and the Construction of Concepts of Personal Autonomy and Democratic Decision Making. M. Gauvain, S.M. Perez, Not All Hurried Children Are the Same: Children's Participation in Deciding on and Planning Their After-School Activities. C.A. Berg, Commentary: Lessons From a Life-Span Perspective to Adolescent Decision Making. Part III: Decision Making in the Real World. L.L. Finken, The Role of Consultants in Adolescents' Decision Making: A Focus on Abortion Decisions. E. Cauffman, J. Woolard, Crime, Competence, and Culpability: Adolescent Judgment in the Justice System. K.M. Galotti, Setting Goals and Making Plans: How Children and Adolescents Frame Their Decisions. D. Moshman, Commentary: The Development of Thinking. B. Fischhoff, Afterword: Development of and in Behavioral Decision Research.