Both social and material rewards play a crucial role in daily life and function as strong
incentives for various goal-directed behaviors. However, it remains unclear whether the …

An essential facet of adaptive and versatile behavior is the ability to prioritize actions in
response to dynamically changing circumstances. The field of potential actions afforded by a …

How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests:
rational thinking skills. Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people …

Emotion regulation strategies can alter behavioral and physiological responses to emotional
stimuli and the neural correlates of those responses in regions such as the amygdala or …

Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and
shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology …

A concern for individual differences has been missing from the Great Rationality Debate in
cognitive science—the debate about how much irrationality to attribute to human cognition …

This book is about the creative work of chefs at top restaurants in New York and San
Francisco. Based on interviews with chefs and observation in restaurant kitchens, the book …

This article presents a short review of dual-process and dual-system theories from social
and cognitive psychology and comments on their relevance for research on economic …

Since its introduction by BA Eriksen and CW Eriksen (Perception & Psychophysics, 16, 143–
49, 1974), the flanker task has emerged as one of the most important experimental tasks in …

Using cluster-analysis, we investigated whether rational, intuitive, spontaneous, dependent,
and avoidant styles of decision making (Scott & Bruce, 1995) combined to form distinct …