In many tasks, human behavior is far noisier than is optimal. Yet when asked to behave
randomly, people are typically too predictable. We argue that these apparently contrasting …

Consumers are inundated with choices, yet they effectively find products that satisfy them. In
this review, we draw from the marketing, economics, psychology, and ecology literatures to …

Doxastic involuntarism—the thesis that we lack direct voluntary control (in response to non‐
evidential reasons) over our belief states—is often touted as philosophical orthodoxy. I here …

Children are often instructed to “use their words” to communicate their emotions, which
requires them to quickly access words that best describe their feelings. Adults vary in their …

Effective linguistic communication depends upon many different cognitive processes
working together in concert. Yet our computational models of these processes are often …