Search is a ubiquitous property of life. Although diverse domains have worked on search problems largely in isolation, recent trends across disciplines indicate that the formal …
Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …
GV Pepper, D Nettle - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017 - cambridge.org
Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …
Highlights•In harsh environments, people become more present-oriented.•Present- orientation increases vigilance, impulsivity, and future discounting.•Present-orientation …
NC Harhen, AM Bornstein - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
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 …
PED Love, LA Ika, JK Pinto - IEEE Transactions on Engineering …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large-scale infrastructure projects tend to experience variances between estimated and final costs. Governments, in response, have been using statistical methods (including …
Choice selection strategies and decision-making are typically investigated using multiple- choice gambling paradigms that require participants to maximize expected value of rewards …
Matching describes how behaviour is related to rewards. The matching law holds when the ratio of an individual's behaviours equals the ratio of the rewards obtained. From its origins …
Purpose The purpose of this paper (including three studies) is to investigate the idea that individuals in an emergency situation experience significantly a higher level of emotional …