Decisions made by mammals and birds are often temporally extended. They require
planning and sampling of decision-relevant information. Our understanding of such decision …

An organism's survival depends on its ability to learn about its environment and to make
adaptive decisions in the service of achieving the best possible outcomes in that …

While often seeming to investigate rather different problems, research into value-based
decision making and cognitive control have historically offered parallel insights into how …

The metacognitive sense of confidence can play a critical role in regulating decision making.
In particular, a lack of confidence can justify the explicit, potentially costly, instrumental …

There'sa difference between someone instantaneously saying “Yes!” when you ask them on
a date compared to “… yes.” Psychologists and economists have long studied how people …

When making decisions, people often overlook critical information or are overly swayed by
irrelevant information. A common approach to mitigate these biases is to provide decision …

One of the most unique and impressive feats of the human mind is its ability to discover and
continuously refine its own cognitive strategies. Elucidating the underlying learning and …

Many everyday life decisions require allocating finite resources, such as attention or time, to
examine multiple available options, like choosing a food supplier online. In cases like these …

To make good decisions in the real world, people need efficient planning strategies because
their computational resources are limited. Knowing which planning strategies would work …

Many decisions involve choosing an uncertain course of action in deep and wide decision
trees, as when we plan to visit an exotic country for vacation. In these cases, exhaustive …