Errors in probabilistic reasoning have been the focus of much psychology research and are
among the original topics of modern behavioral economics. This chapter reviews theory and …

We review the recent literature on rational inattention, identify the main theoretical
mechanisms, and explain how it helps us understand a variety of phenomena across fields …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

В статье анализируются возможные социально-психологические последствия
пандемии COVID-19. На основе собственных эмпирических исследований, а также …

Many contemporary accounts of human reasoning assume that the mind is equipped with
multiple heuristics that could be deployed to perform a given task. This raises the question of …

For over 200 years, philosophers and mathematicians have be en using probability theory to
describe human cognition. While the theory of prob abilities was first developed as a means …

Although the stream of information we encounter is continuous, our experiences tend to be
discretized into meaningful clusters, altering how we represent our past. Event segmentation …

Cognitive fatigue and boredom are two phenomenological states that reflect overt task
disengagement. In this article, we present a rational analysis of the temporal structure of …

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 …

Compact representations of the environment allow humans to behave efficiently in a
complex world. Reinforcement learning models capture many behavioral and neural effects …