Alcohol intoxication and negative mood similarly affect reward learning but not punishment learning in the Iowa gambling task [0.03%]
酒精中毒和负面情绪类似地影响阳性强化学习但不影响阴性惩罚学习(Iowa赌博任务)
Jonas Dora,Holly Sullivan-Toole,Catherine Zhang et al.
Jonas Dora et al.
This study investigated how alcohol intoxication and negative mood affect decision-making in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) in a high-risk sample of adults who regularly drink alcohol. Using a 2×2 between-subjects design (N=160), we experime...
The delay-reward heuristic: What do people expect in intertemporal choice tasks? [0.03%]
延迟奖励启发式: 在跨期选择任务中人们期待什么？
William J Skylark,Kieran T F Chan,George D Farmer et al.
William J Skylark et al.
Recent research has shown that risk and reward are positively correlated in many environments, and that people have internalized this association as a "risk-reward heuristic": when making choices based on incomplete information, people infe...
Julia P Prims,Don A Moore
Julia P Prims
This research investigated how different forms of overconfidence correlate with age. Contrary to stereotypes that young people are more overconfident, the results provide little evidence that overestimation of one's performance or overplace...
Uriel Haran,Don A Moore,Carey K Morewedge
Uriel Haran
Overprecision is the most robust type of overconfidence. We present a new method that significantly reduces this bias and offers insight into its underlying cause. In three experiments, overprecision was significantly reduced by forcing par...
Li-Wei Chao,Helena Szrek,Rui Leite et al.
Li-Wei Chao et al.
The pursuit of unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking or binge drinking, not only carries various downside risks, but also provides pleasure. A parsimonious model, used in the literature to explain the decision to pursue an unhealthy activity...
A new intuitionism: Meaning, memory, and development in Fuzzy-Trace Theory [0.03%]
一种新的直觉主义：模糊痕迹理论中的意义、记忆和发展
Valerie F Reyna
Valerie F Reyna
Combining meaning, memory, and development, the perennially popular topic of intuition can be approached in a new way. Fuzzy-trace theory integrates these topics by distinguishing between meaning-based gist representations, which support fu...
The evaluability bias in charitable giving: Saving administration costs or saving lives? [0.03%]
慈善捐赠中的可评估性偏差：节省管理费用还是挽救生命？
Lucius Caviola,Nadira Faulmüller,Jim A C Everett et al.
Lucius Caviola et al.
We describe the "evaluability bias": the tendency to weight the importance of an attribute in proportion to its ease of evaluation. We propose that the evaluability bias influences decision making in the context of charitable giving: people...
Predicting (un)healthy behavior: A comparison of risk-taking propensity measures [0.03%]
预测行为健康：比较冒险倾向衡量指标
Helena Szrek,Li-Wei Chao,Shandir Ramlagan et al.
Helena Szrek et al.
We compare four different risk-taking propensity measures on their ability to describe and to predict actual risky behavior in the domain of health. The risk-taking propensity measures we compare are: (1) a general measure of risk-taking pr...
Benjamin Y Hayden,Michael L Platt
Benjamin Y Hayden
The St. Petersburg Paradox is a famous economic and philosophical puzzle that has generated numerous conflicting explanations. To shed empirical light on this phenomenon, we examined subjects' bids for one St. Petersburg gamble with a real ...
Normative arguments from experts and peers reduce delay discounting [0.03%]
normative论证来自专家和同行可以减少延迟贴现现象
Nicole Senecal,Teresa Wang,Elizabeth Thompson et al.
Nicole Senecal et al.
When making decisions that involve tradeoffs between the quality and timing of desirable outcomes, people consistently discount the value of future outcomes. A puzzling finding regarding such decisions is the extremely high rate at which pe...