Heuristics are efficient cognitive processes that ignore information. In contrast to the widely
held view that less processing reduces accuracy, the study of heuristics shows that less …

▪ Abstract This review examines recent developments during the past 5 years in the field of
judgment and decision making, written in the form of a list of 16 research problems. Many of …

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Get ready to change the way you think about
economics. Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical …

Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award Presented by the Public and Nonprofit Section
of the National Academy of Management Winner of the 2019 Louis Brownlow Book Award …

In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the
constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision …

The idea of libertarian paternalism might seem to be an oxymoron, but it is both possible and
desirable for private and public institutions to influence behavior while also respecting …

In a striking empirical regularity, deliberation tends to move groups, and the individuals who
compose them, toward a more extreme point in the direction indicated by their own …

COVID-19 prevention behaviors may be seen as self-interested or prosocial. Using
American samples from MTurk and Prolific (total n= 6850), we investigated which framing is …

Regulation by the state can take a variety of forms. Some regulations are aimed entirely at
redistribution, such as when we tax the rich and give to the poor. Other regulations seek to …

Why does public conflict over societal risks persist in the face of compelling and widely
accessible scientific evidence? We conducted an experiment to probe two alternative …