Decisions made by mammals and birds are often temporally extended. They require
planning and sampling of decision-relevant information. Our understanding of such decision …

When making decisions, people tend to shift their attention back and forth between stimuli,
choosing options that they look at more overall and immediately before their responses …

When making decisions, people tend to choose the option they have looked at more. An
unanswered question is how attention influences the choice process: whether it amplifies …

Naturalistic decision-making typically involves sequential deployment of attention to choice
alternatives to gather information before a decision is made. Attention filters how information …

Social psychological research is increasingly interested in the cognitive and affective
processes underlying human behavior in social environments. To match this emerging …

Decision research has experienced a shift from simple algebraic theories of choice to an
appreciation of mental processes underlying choice. A variety of process-tracing methods …

There is a disconnect in the literature between analyses of risky choice based on cumulative
prospect theory (CPT) and work on predecisional information processing. One likely reason …

Decision makers attend more to preferred choice options and to the ultimately chosen
option, but does visual attention influence preferences and choice? Several theories …

Humans and animals can be strongly motivated to seek information to resolve uncertainty
about rewards and punishments. In particular, despite its clinical and societal relevance …

Contextual features influence human and non-human decision making, giving rise to
preference reversals. Decades of research have documented the species and situations in …