Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to processing
mechanisms of low computational expense. Such a tendency leads to suboptimal outcomes …

What are the origins of intelligent behavior? The demands associated with living in complex
social groups have been the favored explanation for the evolution of primate cognition in …

An influential line of thinking in behavioral science, to which the two authors have long
subscribed, is that many of society's most pressing problems can be addressed cheaply and …

Objective Police use-of-force continues to be a major source of international concern,
inviting interest from academics and practitioners alike. Whether justified or unnecessary …

How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests:
rational thinking skills. Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people …

Intertemporal tradeoffs play a key role in many personal decisions and policy questions. We
describe models of intertemporal choice, identify empirical regularities in choice, and pose …

" In this book, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive
science-the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. Stanovich …

Children are notoriously bad at delaying gratification to achieve later, greater rewards (eg,
Piaget, 1970)—and some are worse at waiting than others. Individual differences in the …

This article describes a 2-systems model that explains social behavior as a joint function of
reflective and impulsive processes. In particular, it is assumed that social behavior is …

Construal level theory proposes that temporal distance changes people's responses to
future events by changing the way people mentally represent those events. The greater the …