Human decision making is plagued by systematic errors that can have devastating
consequences. Previous research has found that such errors can be partly prevented by …

Much of our thinking focuses on deciding what to do in situations where the space of
possible options is too large to evaluate exhaustively. Previous work has found that people …

Often we find ourselves in unknown situations where we have to make a decision based on
reasoning upon experiences. However, it is still unclear how people choose which pieces of …

Humans routinely make inferences about both the contents and the workings of other minds
based on observed actions. People consider what others want or know, but also how …

From foraging for food to choosing a career, many decisions in life involve multi-step
planning: choices made early on determine which choices will become available later. How …

People's planning strategies are astonishingly well adapted to the varied and complex
challenges they face daily. Where do those adaptive strategies come from? Do people …

How does the brain learn how to plan? We reverse-engineer people's underlying learning
mechanisms by combining rational process models of cognitive plasticity with recently …

Teaching people clever heuristics is a promising approach to improve decision-making
under uncertainty. The theory of resource rationality makes it possible to leverage machine …

How to build AI that understands human intentions, and uses this knowledge to collaborate
with people? We describe a computational framework for evaluating models of goal …

People's intentional pursuit of prosocial goals and values (ie, well-doing) is critical to the
flourishing of humanity in the long run. But some of the most socially-beneficial pursuits are …