Casey's lab at Cornell University suggest that adolescents aren't reckless because they underestimate risks, but because they overestimate rewards or, rather, find rewards more rewarding than adults do.
Khairutdinov learned that such individuals weren't just reckless cowboys out for cash at all costs, he recalls.
Another reading is the FHA wasn't making those loans because it wasn't so reckless as to be making loans to those people.
He wasn't a petulant Hollywood director or a reckless contestant on reality TV.
But we also need some rules of the road for Wall Street, so that reckless decisions made by a few don't take our economy over the side. (Applause.) That's common sense.
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Now, I understand that, on any given day, Wall Street may be more comforted by an approach that gives bank bailouts with no strings attached and that holds nobody accountable for their reckless decisions, but such an approach won't solve the problem.
We can't go back to a bubble-and-burst economy based on reckless speculation and spending beyond our means, where a relative few do spectacularly well while the middle class loses ground.
Despite the age-old idea that each generation is more reckless than the last, Bieber and his famous peers don't appear to be rebelling so much as they're just getting older.
Two myths the author does reaffirm: Teenagers do "stupid and reckless things, " and "religious people are happier" than those who aren't.
In fact, the only argument for opposing gun background checks is that you believe the U.S. is already so gun-saturated and current gun owners are so reckless about allowing access to their guns by prohibited parties, that even if they can't buy them, the criminals and insane will get their hands on guns in any event.
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