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Journal article Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · October 24, 2023 Featured Publication When people feel curious, they often seek information to resolve their curiosity. Reaching resolution, however, does not always occur in a single step but instead may follow the accumulation of information over time. Here, we investigated changes in curios ... Full text Link to item Cite

Eyes on the account size: Interactions between attention and budget in consumer choice

Journal article Journal of Economic Psychology · August 1, 2023 Featured Publication The context surrounding a consumer decision, such as one's overall budget available for purchases, can exert a strong effect on the subjective value of a product. Across three eye-tracking studies, we explore the attentional processes through which budget ... Full text Cite

Gaze-dependent evidence accumulation predicts multi-alternative risky choice behaviour.

Journal article PLoS computational biology · July 2022 Featured Publication Choices are influenced by gaze allocation during deliberation, so that fixating an alternative longer leads to increased probability of choosing it. Gaze-dependent evidence accumulation provides a parsimonious account of choices, response times and gaze-be ... Full text Cite

Shuffle the Decks: Children Are Sensitive to Incidental Nonrandom Structure in a Sequential-Choice Task.

Journal article Psychol Sci · April 2022 Featured Publication As children age, they can learn increasingly complex features of environmental structure-a key prerequisite for adaptive decision-making. Yet when we tested children (N = 304, 4-13 years old) in the Children's Gambling Task, an age-appropriate variant of t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Beyond money: Risk preferences across both economic and non-economic contexts predict financial decisions.

Journal article PloS one · January 2022 Featured Publication Important decisions about risk occur in wide-ranging contexts, from investing to healthcare. While an underlying, domain-general risk attitude has been identified across contexts, it remains unclear what role it plays in shaping behavior relative to more d ... Full text Cite

Healthful choices depend on the latency and rate of information accumulation.

Journal article Nature human behaviour · December 2021 Featured Publication The drift diffusion model provides a parsimonious explanation of decisions across neurobiological, psychological and behavioural levels of analysis. Although most drift diffusion model implementations assume that only a single value guides decisions, choic ... Full text Cite

The hidden cost of humanization: Individuating information reduces prosocial behavior toward in-group members

Journal article Journal of Economic Psychology · October 1, 2021 Featured Publication This paper reports robust experimental evidence that humanization—in the form of individuating information about another's personal preferences—leads to decreased prosocial behavior toward in-group members. Previous research shows that individuating inform ... Full text Cite

Oversampling of minority categories drives misperceptions of group compositions.

Journal article Cognition · September 2021 Featured Publication The ability to estimate proportions informs our immediate impressions of social environments (e.g., of the diversity of races or genders within a crowded room). This study examines how the distribution of attention during brief glances shapes estimates of ... Full text Cite

Voter Preferences Reflect a Competition Between Policy and Identity

Journal article Frontiers in Psychology · October 15, 2020 Featured Publication Canonical rational choice models of voter preferences assume that voters select candidates whose policy positions most closely match their own. Yet, much of the electorate often appears to prioritize identity variables (e.g., social categories, group membe ... Full text Cite

Deconstructing bias in social preferences reveals groupy and not-groupy behavior.

Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · September 2020 Featured Publication Group divisions are a continual feature of human history, with biases toward people's own groups shown in both experimental and natural settings. Using a within-subject design, this paper deconstructs group biases to find significant and robust individual ... Full text Cite

Dorsolateral and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex track distinct properties of dynamic social behavior.

Journal article Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci · June 23, 2020 Featured Publication Understanding how humans make competitive decisions in complex environments is a key goal of decision neuroscience. Typical experimental paradigms constrain behavioral complexity (e.g. choices in discrete-play games), and thus, the underlying neural mechan ... Full text Link to item Cite