Lessons for artificial intelligence from the study of natural stupidity

AS Rich, TM Gureckis - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems are increasingly replacing human
decision makers in commercial, healthcare, educational and government contexts. But …

Dynamic decision making: Learning processes and new research directions

C Gonzalez, P Fakhari, J Busemeyer - Human factors, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: The aim of this manuscript is to provide a review of contemporary research and
applications on dynamic decision making (DDM). Background: Since early DDM studies …

With age comes wisdom: Decision making in younger and older adults

DA Worthy, MA Gorlick, JL Pacheco… - Psychological …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
In two experiments, younger and older adults performed decision-making tasks in which
reward values available were either independent of or dependent on the previous sequence …

Loss-aversion or loss-attention: The impact of losses on cognitive performance

E Yechiam, G Hochman - Cognitive Psychology, 2013 - Elsevier
Losses were found to improve cognitive performance, and this has been commonly
explained by increased weighting of losses compared to gains (ie, loss aversion). We …

Heterogeneity of strategy use in the Iowa gambling task: A comparison of win-stay/lose-shift and reinforcement learning models

DA Worthy, MJ Hawthorne, AR Otto - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2013 - Springer
The Iowa gambling task (IGT) has been used in numerous studies, often to examine
decision-making performance in different clinical populations. Reinforcement learning (RL) …

Melioration as rational choice: sequential decision making in uncertain environments.

CR Sims, H Neth, RA Jacobs, WD Gray - Psychological review, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Melioration—defined as choosing a lesser, local gain over a greater longer term gain—is a
behavioral tendency that people and pigeons share. As such, the empirical occurrence of …

Connecting cognition and consumer choice

DM Bartels, EJ Johnson - Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
We describe what can be gained from connecting cognition and consumer choice by
discussing two contexts ripe for interaction between the two fields. The first—context effects …

Decomposing the roles of perseveration and expected value representation in models of the Iowa gambling task

DA Worthy, B Pang, KA Byrne - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Models of human behavior in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) have played a pivotal role in
accounting for behavioral differences during decision-making. One critical difference …

Acute stress enhances tolerance of uncertainty during decision-making

KA Byrne, C Peters, HC Willis, D Phan, A Cornwall… - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Acute stress has been shown to influence reward sensitivity, feedback learning, and risk-
taking during decision-making, primarily through activation of the hypothalamic pituitary axis …

Finding structure in multi-armed bandits

E Schulz, NT Franklin, SJ Gershman - Cognitive psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
How do humans search for rewards? This question is commonly studied using multi-armed
bandit tasks, which require participants to trade off exploration and exploitation. Standard …