Humans often make decisions in stressful situations, for example when the stakes are high
and the potential consequences severe, or when the clock is ticking and the task demand is …

Many reasoning biases that may contribute to delusion formation and/or maintenance are
common in healthy individuals. Research indicating that reasoning in the general population …

Recent decades have witnessed a burst of neuroscience research investigating mental and
physiological processes central to consumer behavior, including sensory perception …

Acute stress is known to increase prosocial behavior in men via a “tend-and-befriend”
pattern originally proposed as a specifically female stress response alongside the fight-or …

It has been suggested that there are two distinct and parallel mechanisms for controlling
instrumental behavior in mammals: goal-directed actions and habits. To gain an …

We randomly expose the owners of small retail businesses in Vietnam to scenarios that
trigger financial worries and study the effect of this intervention on risk attitudes using an …

Advances in molecular genetics have led to the exponential growth of the direct-to-
consumer genetic testing industry, resulting in the assembly of massive privately owned …

In everyday life, moral decisions must frequently be made under acute stress. Although there
is increasing evidence that both stress and cortisol affect moral judgment and behavior as …

In modern human cultures where social hierarchies are ubiquitous, people typically signal
their hierarchical position through consumption of positional goods—goods that convey …

Food intake is essential for maintaining homeostasis, which is necessary for survival in all
species. However, food intake also impacts multiple biochemical processes that influence …