Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society

TT Hills, PM Todd, D Lazer, AD Redish… - Trends in cognitive …, 2015 - cell.com
Search is a ubiquitous property of life. Although diverse domains have worked on search
problems largely in isolation, recent trends across disciplines indicate that the formal …

Dynamic decision making: Learning processes and new research directions

C Gonzalez, P Fakhari, J Busemeyer - Human factors, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: The aim of this manuscript is to provide a review of contemporary research and
applications on dynamic decision making (DDM). Background: Since early DDM studies …

Value-free random exploration is linked to impulsivity

M Dubois, TU Hauser - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Deciding whether to forgo a good choice in favour of exploring a potentially more rewarding
alternative is one of the most challenging arbitrations both in human reasoning and in …

Who chokes under pressure? The Big Five personality traits and decision-making under pressure

KA Byrne, CD Silasi-Mansat, DA Worthy - Personality and individual …, 2015 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the Big Five personality factors
could predict who thrives or chokes under pressure during decision-making. The effects of …

Heterogeneity of strategy use in the Iowa gambling task: A comparison of win-stay/lose-shift and reinforcement learning models

DA Worthy, MJ Hawthorne, AR Otto - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2013 - Springer
The Iowa gambling task (IGT) has been used in numerous studies, often to examine
decision-making performance in different clinical populations. Reinforcement learning (RL) …

Melioration as rational choice: sequential decision making in uncertain environments.

CR Sims, H Neth, RA Jacobs, WD Gray - Psychological review, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Melioration—defined as choosing a lesser, local gain over a greater longer term gain—is a
behavioral tendency that people and pigeons share. As such, the empirical occurrence of …

Learning and choosing in an uncertain world: An investigation of the explore–exploit dilemma in static and dynamic environments

DJ Navarro, BR Newell, C Schulze - Cognitive psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
How do people solve the explore–exploit trade-off in a changing environment? In this paper
we present experimental evidence from an “observe or bet” task, in which people have to …

The downsides of cognitive enhancement

LS Colzato, B Hommel, C Beste - The Neuroscientist, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive enhancement is becoming progressively popular as a subject of scientific
investigation and by the public, although possible adverse effects are not sufficiently …

Decomposing the roles of perseveration and expected value representation in models of the Iowa gambling task

DA Worthy, B Pang, KA Byrne - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Models of human behavior in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) have played a pivotal role in
accounting for behavioral differences during decision-making. One critical difference …

The limits of learning: Exploration, generalization, and the development of learning traps.

AS Rich, TM Gureckis - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Learning usually improves the accuracy of beliefs through the accumulation of experience.
But are there limits to learning that prevent us from accurately understanding our world? In …