Risk taking kids

Flouri and teammates report that “This study used the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study to investigate the role of greenness of the child’s immediate residential area at ages 9 months and 3, 5, 7, and 11 years in reward and punishment sensitivity, measured using the Cambridge Gambling Task (CGT), at age 11 years. Our sample was the children who lived in urban areas at all five time-points and with data on the CGT at the fifth. . . . children in the least green areas were more likely to engage in ‘fast’ decision strategies than other children: they showed higher sensitivity to reward (or lower sensitivity to punishment). . . . in children, the relative absence of contextual greenery is associated with increased risk-taking rather than its increased quantity with reduced risk-taking. . . . the built environment can impact on risk-taking among children as young as 11 years old.”

Eirini Flouri, Dongying Ji, and Jonathan Roiser.  2022. “The Role of Urban Greenspace in Children’s Reward and Punishment Sensitivity.”  Landscape Research, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 256-270,https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2021.2021160