Humans do not integrate new information objectively: outcomes carrying a positive affective
value and evidence confirming one's own prior belief are overweighed. Until recently …

The persistence of drug taking despite its adverse consequences plays a central role in the
presentation, diagnosis, and impacts of addiction. Eventual recognition and appraisal of …

Patch foraging presents a sequential decision-making problem widely studied across
organisms—stay with a current option or leave it in search of a better alternative? Behavioral …

We systematically misjudge our own performance in simple economic tasks. First, we
generally overestimate our ability to make correct choices—a bias called overconfidence …

Patch foraging is a near-ubiquitous behaviour across the animal kingdom and characterises
many decision-making domains encountered by humans. We review how a disposition to …

For years, adult psychological research has benefitted from web-based data collection.
There is growing interest in harnessing this approach to facilitate data collection from …

The mesolimbic dopaminergic system exerts a crucial influence on incentive processing.
However, the contribution of dopamine in dynamic, ecological situations where reward rates …

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are extreme stressors that lead to negative
psychosocial outcomes in adulthood. Nonhuman animals explore less after exposure to …

A caregiver's all‐too‐familiar narrative‐“He doesn't think through what he does, but mostly
he does nothing.” Apathy and impulsivity, debilitating and poorly understood, commonly co …

Foraging is a natural behavior that involves making sequential decisions to maximize
rewards while minimizing the costs incurred when doing so. The prevalence of foraging …