Risk‐taking behavior is the focus of adolescent research. In recent years, a new field has emerged-prosocial risk‐taking behavior, which refers to the purpose of completing the behavior is to benefit others rather than oneself, and the behavior may bring certain risks to oneself. This behavior is the intersection of prosocial behavior and risk‐taking behavior, but domestic and foreign research is still at the theoretical level, and the research is very few. On the basis of risk taking behavior and prosocial behavior, this study comprehensively reviews a few previous studies, defines prosocial risk taking behavior for the first time in China, and elaborates its characteristics, research methods, research deficiencies and future prospects.