Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to pervade the economic and social life. This renders
strategic interactions between humans and artificial agents more and more common. At the …

Motivated behavior exhibits properties that change with experience and partially dissociate
among a number of brain structures. Here, we review evidence from rodent experiments …

The paper theoretically elaborates and empirically investigates the “competitive arousal”
model of decision making, which argues that elements of the strategic environment (eg …

Like other group-living species, humans often cooperate more with an in-group member
than with out-group members and strangers. Greater in-group favoritism should imply that …

Auction sites on the Internet frequently put bidders under time pressure or highlight the
social competition that is inherent to auctions. Both aspects are believed to elicit an exciting …

The pervasiveness of decision-making in every area of human endeavor highlights the
importance of understanding choice mechanisms and their detailed relationship to …

The presence of computerized agents has become pervasive in everyday live. In this paper,
we examine the impact of agency on human bidders' affective processes and bidding …

Hormonal levels have been hypothesized to serve as proximal biological mechanisms
underlying individual differences in risk taking. We conducted a systematic literature search …

Forming and comparing subjective values (SVs) of choice options is a critical stage of
decision-making. Previous studies have highlighted a complex network of brain regions …

In competitive social environments, people often deviate from what rational choice theory
prescribes, resulting in losses or suboptimal monetary gains. We investigate how …