Human decision-making is plagued by many systematic errors. Many of these errors can be
avoided by providing decision aids that guide decision-makers to attend to the important …

Short-sighted decisions can have devastating consequences, and teaching people to make
their decisions in a more far-sighted way is challenging. Previous research found that …

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 …

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 …

People's planning strategies are astonishingly well adapted to the varied and complex
challenges people face daily. How are people able to plan so adaptively despite their limited …

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 …

AI can not only outperform people in many planning tasks, but also teach them how to plan
better. All prior work was conducted in fully observable environments, but the real world is …

Learning to exploit the contingencies of a complex experiment is not an easy task for
animals. Individuals learn in an idiosyncratic manner, revising their approaches multiple …

Scientific discovery concerns finding patterns in data and creating insightful hypotheses that
explain these patterns. Traditionally, each step of this process required human ingenuity. But …

People are able to learn clever cognitive strategies through trial and error from small
amounts of experience. This is facilitated by people's ability to reflect on their own thinking …