Older adults often take longer to make
a decision than young adults do.
Not exact matches
Most ironic part of all of this is that the group (
young adults) that appear to have come out in force to get him re-elected, are the ones that will be paying for this
decision (in more ways
than one) for the rest of their lives...
For many reasons, including financial constraints, career
decisions, wanderlust and more,
young adults are waiting longer to have children
than any generation before them.
Young adults with thinner cortex in particular brain regions are more impulsive during a
decision - making task
than teens with thicker cortex, according to a large correlational study of adolescents from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort.
But for
decision - making tasks — such as investment advice — the
younger adults in particular wanted a humanoid appearance, which they perceived as more intelligent, smarter or wiser
than the other options.
Some
decisions were easy: to provide a program from 7th grade through graduation; to move students through the program on an individual basis; to ask our teachers to be well educated, but to act more as generalists
than specialists; to keep teachers» student loads down, and to offer advisories instead of more formal and distant «guidance counseling»; to offer only one foreign language, but to expect all to learn it; to put our money into more
adults, some of them
young adults, rather
than into high rents or new furniture.
It can be more
than a little frustrating for
adults when kids don't think through the consequences of their
decisions, say, when they «forget» to do their homework or «accidentally» hurt their
younger sibling playing too roughly.