Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to
steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (eg …

As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their
development, whereas the direct influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may …

Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and
legal scholars explore the conscious choice not to seek information. The history of …

Purpose Are there smart ways to find heuristics? What are the common principles behind
heuristics? We propose an integrative definition of heuristics, based on insights that apply to …

Ecological rationality represents an alternative to classic frameworks of rationality. Extending
on Herbert Simon's concept of bounded rationality, it holds that cognitive processes …

Research on judgment and decision making typically studies “small worlds”—highly
simplified and stylized tasks such as monetary gambles—among homogenous populations …

This article proposes a novel and comprehensive framework on how to describe the
probabilistic nature of decision-making process. We suggest extending the quantum-like …

At its best, strategic thinking yields an advantage needed to beat an opponent. At the least, it
protects the person from exploitation. In four studies, conducted in two countries, we used a …

We determined the scope of five decision models of choices across four environmental
niches defined by whether outcome probabilities are described (risk) or experienced by …

Over the past decades psychological theories have made significant headway into
economics, culminating in the 2002 (partially) and 2017 Nobel prizes awarded for work in …