Decision-making relies on a process of evidence accumulation which generates support for possible hypotheses. Models of this process derived from…
Most cognitive theories assume that confidence and choice happen simultaneously and are based on the same information. The 3 studies…
In many everyday decisions, people quickly integrate noisy samples of information to form a preference among alternatives that offer uncertain…
In life, risk is reward and vice versa. Unfortunately, the big rewards people desire are relatively unlikely to occur. This…
Psychological theories of subjective probability judgments assume that accumulated evidence (support) mediates the relation between the description of a to-be-judged…
Many students during their college careers consider withdrawing from their respective college or university. Understanding why some students decide to…
The 3 most often-used performance measures in the cognitive and decision sciences are choice, response or decision time, and confidence.…
A sequential risk-taking paradigm used to identify real-world risk takers invokes both learning and decision processes. This article expands the…
The recognition heuristic uses a recognition decision to make an inference about an unknown variable in the world. Theories of…
This article models the cognitive processes underlying learning and sequential choice in a risk-taking task for the purposes of understanding…