1997, Bickell et al., 1999, Madden et al., 1999) ranging from animal behavior to drug addict’s risk evaluation. For this paper in particular, hyperbolic discounting plays a major role, because it underlies how people make decisions about risk, and can be motivated by environmental cues and psychological variables like peer influence. Allan et al. (2009) suggests this after they proved that a person may correctly evaluate the cost of poor eating by subscribing to a diet, but will most likely relapse at the sight of chocolate cake. Environmental cues in this situation drive internal cognitions through the limbic system and overwhelm proper discounting promoted by the medial prefrontal cortex. Adolescences then would be equally if not more susceptible to environmental cues and peer influence, because they lack mature executive function to overcome these pressures. This sentiment is echoed in a paper Ahern et al. (2014), who proved that risk aversion is systematically shaped and influenced by a person’s peers. In both of these studies, the individual rationally discounts time at a particular point, but changes that evaluation after exposure to some extrinsic motivating variable. Giving credence to the relativity of rational decisions particularly in
1997, Bickell et al., 1999, Madden et al., 1999) ranging from animal behavior to drug addict’s risk evaluation. For this paper in particular, hyperbolic discounting plays a major role, because it underlies how people make decisions about risk, and can be motivated by environmental cues and psychological variables like peer influence. Allan et al. (2009) suggests this after they proved that a person may correctly evaluate the cost of poor eating by subscribing to a diet, but will most likely relapse at the sight of chocolate cake. Environmental cues in this situation drive internal cognitions through the limbic system and overwhelm proper discounting promoted by the medial prefrontal cortex. Adolescences then would be equally if not more susceptible to environmental cues and peer influence, because they lack mature executive function to overcome these pressures. This sentiment is echoed in a paper Ahern et al. (2014), who proved that risk aversion is systematically shaped and influenced by a person’s peers. In both of these studies, the individual rationally discounts time at a particular point, but changes that evaluation after exposure to some extrinsic motivating variable. Giving credence to the relativity of rational decisions particularly in