In recent years, policy makers worldwide have begun to acknowledge the potential value of
insights from psychology and behavioral economics into how people make decisions. These …

Highlights•Fast-and-frugal heuristics are useful in situations of uncertainty, while
optimization is designed for situations or risk.•The study of the adaptive toolbox is …

If citizens' behavior threatens to harm others or seems not to be in their own interest (eg,
risking severe head injuries by riding a motorcycle without a helmet), it is not uncommon for …

Fast-and-frugal trees (FFTs) are simple algorithms that facilitate efficient and accurate
decisions based on limited information. But despite their successful use in many applied …

Rules for building formal models that use fast-and-frugal heuristics, extending the
psychological study of classification to the real world of uncertainty. This book focuses on …

We distinguish between situations of risk, where all options, consequences, and
probabilities are known, and situations of uncertainty, where they are not. Probability theory …

Identifying effective behaviour-change interventions to promote energy conservation in the
residential sphere has been the topic of extensive empirical research. While existing …

The term process model is widely used, but rarely agreed upon. This paper proposes a
framework for characterizing and building cognitive process models. Process models model …

According to psychological scientists, humans understand models that most match their own
internal models, which they characterize as lists of" heuristic" s (ie lists of very succinct …

This paper discusses current developments in tax compliance research, with a focus on
three aspects. First, we summarize empirical evidence on the traditional deterrence or …