Natasha Duell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5763990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natasha Duell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Duell |
| SIGNATURE | DUELL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2325-9333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Positive and negative risk-taking and decision-making in the Balloon Emotional Learning Task (Belt)
Unlike negative risk-taking, positive risk-taking is thought to support young people’s desire for exploration and novelty in socially acceptable and developmentally appropriate ways. Although positive risk-taking is hypothesized to reflect a more optimal pattern of decision-making in the real world, scholars have yet to establish this behaviorally in the lab. In the present study, we assessed negative (e.g., substance use, shoplifting, getting in…
Physical activity and two‐year change in adolescent well‐being in nine countries
The benefits of physical activity (PA) for well‐being are well known; however, studies examining longitudinal effects across diverse international samples in late adolescence are limited. This study advances prior work by combining a partial longitudinal design with a multinational sample to assess the predictive effect of PA on biennial change in older adolescents' well‐being, while testing for sex differences. The sample included 903 adolescent…
Positive risk taking across the world
Around the world, adolescence is characterized by increased risk taking. Much research has focused on negative risk taking, but there is growing recognition of positive risk taking, which can benefit adolescent development. So far, research on positive risk taking has been limited to Western samples. This study examined a self-report scale of positive risk taking with a sample of 962 adolescents (M age = 18.51 years) from nine diverse countries: …
Psychological profiles associated with positive and negative risk-taking in adults
Although risk is often considered in the context of maladaptive behaviors, risks can also be positive, allowing individuals to pursue meaningful goals in a socially accepted way. In this study, we were interested in examining psychological profiles associated with positive and negative risk-taking in adults ( N = 275, ages 19–71 years, M = 39.25; SD = 13.73) using latent profile analysis. Specifically, we examined whether distinct profiles of psy…
Parents’ learning support and school attitudes in relation to adolescent academic identity and school performance in nine countries
Measuring peer influence susceptibility to alcohol use
Research on peer socialization rarely examines individual differences in adolescents’ susceptibility to peer influence, perhaps because few theories or methods have elucidated how susceptibility is operationalized. This study offers a new analogue measure of peer influence susceptibility in adolescence that is adapted from sociological theory. A preliminary examination of this new paradigm included the study of individual differences in susceptib…
Concurrent and prospective associations between fitbit wearable‐derived RDoC arousal and regulatory constructs and adolescent internalizing symptoms
Background Adolescence is characterized by alterations in biobehavioral functioning, during which individuals are at heightened risk for onset of psychopathology, particularly internalizing disorders. Researchers have proposed using digital technologies to index daily biobehavioral functioning, yet there is a dearth of research examining how wearable metrics are associated with mental health. Methods We preregistered analyses using the Adolescent…
Adolescents’ perceptions of social risk and prosocial tendencies
Many prosocial behaviors involve social risks such as speaking out against a popular opinion, bias, group norm, or authority. However, little is known about whether adolescents' prosocial tendencies develop over time with their perceptions of social risks. This accelerated longitudinal study used within-subject growth-curve analyses to test the link between prosocial tendencies and social risk perceptions, in a sample of adolescents who completed…
Adolescents take positive risks, too
Positive and negative risk taking in adolescence
Despite empirical and epidemiological research indicating that risk taking propensity increases across adolescence, it is unknown whether this is true for positive risk taking. Additionally, adolescents' decisions are heavily influenced by their social environment, but it is unclear to what extent social influences are associated with positive risk taking. The present study compared age patterns between self-reported positive and negative (health…
Adolescents Are More Likely to Help Others on Days They Take Risks and Crave Social Connections
This study examined how adolescents' risk-taking behaviors were related to their prosocial behaviors on a daily level and how this association differed depending on adolescents' daily and average levels of sensation seeking and social craving. Adolescents (N = 212; M age = 15 years) completed daily diaries for 14 days. Adolescents were more likely to engage in prosocial behavior on days when they also took risks, but only when they also felt high…
Differential Correlates of Positive and Negative Risk Taking in Adolescence
Positive Risk Taking in Adolescence
Adolescents are more likely to take risks than children or adults. This propensity can be directed toward negative (illegal and dangerous) or positive (socially acceptable and constructive) risk behaviors. Adolescents who take positive risks include teenagers winning Olympic medals for landing snowboard tricks and students protesting gun violence on a national platform. Yet little is known about the nature of positive risk taking because much of …
Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World
The dual systems model
According to the dual systems perspective, risk taking peaks during adolescence because activation of an early-maturing socioemotional-incentive processing system amplifies adolescents' affinity for exciting, pleasurable, and novel activities at a time when a still immature cognitive control system is not yet strong enough to consistently restrain potentially hazardous impulses. We review evidence from both the psychological and neuroimaging lite…
Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking
In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation make independent, additive, or interactive contributions to risk taking, and ask whether these relations differ as a function of age and culture. To compare across cultures, we conduct 2 sets of…
Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World
Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking
In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation make independent, additive, or interactive contributions to risk taking, and ask whether these relations differ as a function of age and culture. To compare across cultures, we conduct 2 sets of…
Differential Correlates of Positive and Negative Risk Taking in Adolescence
Adolescents Are More Likely to Help Others on Days They Take Risks and Crave Social Connections
This study examined how adolescents' risk-taking behaviors were related to their prosocial behaviors on a daily level and how this association differed depending on adolescents' daily and average levels of sensation seeking and social craving. Adolescents (N = 212; M age = 15 years) completed daily diaries for 14 days. Adolescents were more likely to engage in prosocial behavior on days when they also took risks, but only when they also felt high…
Positive risk taking across the world
Around the world, adolescence is characterized by increased risk taking. Much research has focused on negative risk taking, but there is growing recognition of positive risk taking, which can benefit adolescent development. So far, research on positive risk taking has been limited to Western samples. This study examined a self-report scale of positive risk taking with a sample of 962 adolescents (M age = 18.51 years) from nine diverse countries: …
Adolescents’ perceptions of social risk and prosocial tendencies
Many prosocial behaviors involve social risks such as speaking out against a popular opinion, bias, group norm, or authority. However, little is known about whether adolescents' prosocial tendencies develop over time with their perceptions of social risks. This accelerated longitudinal study used within-subject growth-curve analyses to test the link between prosocial tendencies and social risk perceptions, in a sample of adolescents who completed…
The dual systems model
According to the dual systems perspective, risk taking peaks during adolescence because activation of an early-maturing socioemotional-incentive processing system amplifies adolescents' affinity for exciting, pleasurable, and novel activities at a time when a still immature cognitive control system is not yet strong enough to consistently restrain potentially hazardous impulses. We review evidence from both the psychological and neuroimaging lite…
Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking
In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation make independent, additive, or interactive contributions to risk taking, and ask whether these relations differ as a function of age and culture. To compare across cultures, we conduct 2 sets of…
Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World
Positive Risk Taking in Adolescence
Adolescents are more likely to take risks than children or adults. This propensity can be directed toward negative (illegal and dangerous) or positive (socially acceptable and constructive) risk behaviors. Adolescents who take positive risks include teenagers winning Olympic medals for landing snowboard tricks and students protesting gun violence on a national platform. Yet little is known about the nature of positive risk taking because much of …
Differential Correlates of Positive and Negative Risk Taking in Adolescence
Adolescents take positive risks, too
Positive and negative risk taking in adolescence
Despite empirical and epidemiological research indicating that risk taking propensity increases across adolescence, it is unknown whether this is true for positive risk taking. Additionally, adolescents' decisions are heavily influenced by their social environment, but it is unclear to what extent social influences are associated with positive risk taking. The present study compared age patterns between self-reported positive and negative (health…
Adolescents Are More Likely to Help Others on Days They Take Risks and Crave Social Connections
This study examined how adolescents' risk-taking behaviors were related to their prosocial behaviors on a daily level and how this association differed depending on adolescents' daily and average levels of sensation seeking and social craving. Adolescents (N = 212; M age = 15 years) completed daily diaries for 14 days. Adolescents were more likely to engage in prosocial behavior on days when they also took risks, but only when they also felt high…
Measuring peer influence susceptibility to alcohol use
Research on peer socialization rarely examines individual differences in adolescents’ susceptibility to peer influence, perhaps because few theories or methods have elucidated how susceptibility is operationalized. This study offers a new analogue measure of peer influence susceptibility in adolescence that is adapted from sociological theory. A preliminary examination of this new paradigm included the study of individual differences in susceptib…
Concurrent and prospective associations between fitbit wearable‐derived RDoC arousal and regulatory constructs and adolescent internalizing symptoms
Background Adolescence is characterized by alterations in biobehavioral functioning, during which individuals are at heightened risk for onset of psychopathology, particularly internalizing disorders. Researchers have proposed using digital technologies to index daily biobehavioral functioning, yet there is a dearth of research examining how wearable metrics are associated with mental health. Methods We preregistered analyses using the Adolescent…
Adolescents’ perceptions of social risk and prosocial tendencies
Many prosocial behaviors involve social risks such as speaking out against a popular opinion, bias, group norm, or authority. However, little is known about whether adolescents' prosocial tendencies develop over time with their perceptions of social risks. This accelerated longitudinal study used within-subject growth-curve analyses to test the link between prosocial tendencies and social risk perceptions, in a sample of adolescents who completed…
Psychological profiles associated with positive and negative risk-taking in adults
Although risk is often considered in the context of maladaptive behaviors, risks can also be positive, allowing individuals to pursue meaningful goals in a socially accepted way. In this study, we were interested in examining psychological profiles associated with positive and negative risk-taking in adults ( N = 275, ages 19–71 years, M = 39.25; SD = 13.73) using latent profile analysis. Specifically, we examined whether distinct profiles of psy…
Parents’ learning support and school attitudes in relation to adolescent academic identity and school performance in nine countries
Physical activity and two‐year change in adolescent well‐being in nine countries
The benefits of physical activity (PA) for well‐being are well known; however, studies examining longitudinal effects across diverse international samples in late adolescence are limited. This study advances prior work by combining a partial longitudinal design with a multinational sample to assess the predictive effect of PA on biennial change in older adolescents' well‐being, while testing for sex differences. The sample included 903 adolescent…
Positive risk taking across the world
Around the world, adolescence is characterized by increased risk taking. Much research has focused on negative risk taking, but there is growing recognition of positive risk taking, which can benefit adolescent development. So far, research on positive risk taking has been limited to Western samples. This study examined a self-report scale of positive risk taking with a sample of 962 adolescents (M age = 18.51 years) from nine diverse countries: …
Positive and negative risk-taking and decision-making in the Balloon Emotional Learning Task (Belt)
Unlike negative risk-taking, positive risk-taking is thought to support young people’s desire for exploration and novelty in socially acceptable and developmentally appropriate ways. Although positive risk-taking is hypothesized to reflect a more optimal pattern of decision-making in the real world, scholars have yet to establish this behaviorally in the lab. In the present study, we assessed negative (e.g., substance use, shoplifting, getting in…
Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (5 works) · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (4 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works)