An increasing number of scholars are using interventions to positively affect individual and
organizational outcomes at work. Yet the potential of intervention-based management …

The ability to act on the world with the goal of gaining information is core to human
adaptability and intelligence. Perhaps the most successful and influential account of such …

Intuitively, children appear to be more exploratory than adults, and this exploration seems to
help children learn,. However, there have been few clear tests of these ideas. We test …

Higher-level cognition depends on the ability to learn models of the world. We can
characterize this at the computational level as a structure-learning problem with the goal of …

Straight Choices provides a fascinating introduction to the psychology of decision making,
enhanced by discussion of relevant examples of decision problems faced in everyday life …

Everything that happens has a multitude of causes, but people make causal judgments
effortlessly. How do people select one particular cause (eg, the lightning bolt that set the …

Why do some (and only some) observations prompt people to ask “why?” We propose a
functional approach to “Explanation-Seeking Curiosity”(ESC): the state that motivates …

Searching for information is critical in many situations. In medicine, for instance, careful
choice of a diagnostic test can help narrow down the range of plausible diseases that the …

We propose that humans spontaneously organize environments into clusters of states that
support hierarchical planning, enabling them to tackle challenging problems by breaking …

A defining aspect of being human is an ability to reason about the world by generating and
adapting ideas and hypotheses. Here we explore how this ability develops by comparing …