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# Does gaming help us relive our adolescence?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/does-gaming-help-us-relive-our-adolescence/
- Published: 2012-02-08T14:33:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:26:33.000Z
- Description: When I was sixteen, I got a speeding ticket. I knew I shouldn’t have been driving sixty-five miles per hour in a thirty-five mile per hour zone, but on the other hand how awesome was it (until I got pulled over)? Pretty awesome (until I got pulled over)! Wall Street Journal explains: Recent studies
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

When I was sixteen, I got a speeding ticket. I knew I shouldn’t have been driving sixty-five miles per hour in a thirty-five mile per hour zone, but on the other hand how awesome was it (until I got pulled over)? Pretty awesome (until I got pulled over)! *Wall Street Journal* explains:

> Recent studies in the neuroscientist B.J. 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.

Think about videogames, which present only rewards. If my mom’s Honda had been merely a batch of pixels in *Forza*, I could have pressed that magical rewind button the game gives you and gone back thirty seconds and slowed down, saving myself $675 and several weeks of grounding from my parents in the process. Ah, if only.

*\-Drew Millard*

\[via *[Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203806504577181351486558984.html?ref=killscreen.com)*\]