Research Areas

Which decision strategies enable people to infer and decide efficiently based on limited and often uncertain information, by making clever use of key regularities in the environment?
Which search and learning processes guide people in deciding where to look for further information, and—importantly—when to stop searching and take action?
How do individuals tap into social information from others, and under what conditions do groups outperform their individual members?
How do the cognitive processes of search, learning, and decision making, along with the use of social information, develop over the decision maker’s lifespan?
What are effective ways of boosting the ability of patients, doctors, citizens, and policy makers to make good decisions?
How do human minds interact with online environments? How can this relationship be improved for individuals and democracy?
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