While often seeming to investigate rather different problems, research into value-based
decision making and cognitive control have historically offered parallel insights into how …

Experiments are increasingly moving online. This poses a major challenge for researchers
who rely on in-lab techniques such as eye-tracking. Researchers in computer science have …

One piece of the puzzle to prosocial behavior is understanding its underlying cognitive and
affective processes. We discuss how modeling behavior in social dilemmas can be …

People are often reluctant to trade, a reticence attributed to the endowment effect. The
prevailing account attributes the endowment effect to valuation-related bias, manifesting as …

When making decisions, how people allocate their attention influences their choices. One
empirical finding is that people are more likely to choose the option that they have looked at …

Recent experiments have found that prompting people to think about accuracy reduces
misinformation sharing intentions. The process by which this effect operates, however …

Researchers run experiments to test theories, search for and document phenomena,
develop theories, or advise policymakers. When testing theories, experiments must be …

Decades of research have established the ubiquity and importance of choice biases, such
as the framing effect, yet why these seemingly irrational behaviors occur remains unknown …

Intertemporal choices–decisions that play out over time–pervade our life. Thus, how people
make intertemporal choices is a fundamental question. Here, we investigate the role of …

Experiments comparing intuitive and reflective decisions provide insights into the cognitive
foundations of human behavior. However, the relative strengths and weaknesses of the …