A framework is presented for understanding how misinformation shapes decision-making,
which has cognitive representations of gist at its core. I discuss how the framework goes …

The onus on the average person is greater than ever before to make sense of large amounts
of readily accessible quantitative information, but the ability and confidence to do so are …

Uncertainty permeates decisions from the trivial to the profound. Integrating brain and
behavioral evidence, we discuss how probabilistic (varied outcomes) and temporal (delayed …

Higher numeracy has been associated with decision biases in some numerical judgment‐
and‐decision problems. According to fuzzy‐trace theory, understanding such paradoxes …

In ten studies (N= 9187), I systematically investigated the direction and size of seven helping
effects (the identifiable-victim effect, proportion dominance effect, ingroup effect, existence …

This paper asks whether moral preferences in eight medical dilemmas change as a function
of how preferences are expressed, and how people choose when they are faced with two …

Contemporary theories of decision-making are compared with respect to their predictions
about the judgments that are hypothesized to underlie risky choice framing effects …

Recent decision‐making research provides empirical evidence that human risk preferences
are constructed “on the fly” during risk elicitation, influenced by the decision‐making context …

Despite the importance of uncertainty in decision-making, few published studies have
examined how individuals make moral judgments under uncertainty. Across four …

Decision makers often prefer safe wins over risky gambles, even if the latter promise higher
payoffs than the former. One mechanism that explains this choice pattern is the certainty …