Many decisions require flexible reasoning that depends on inference, generalization, and
deliberation. Here, we review emerging findings indicating that the hippocampus, known for …

Human attitudes and preferences are susceptible to social influence. Recent social
neuroscience studies, using theories and experimental paradigms from social psychology …

Our choice is influenced by choices we made in the past, but the mechanism responsible for
the choice bias remains elusive. Here we show that the history-dependent choice bias can …

Individuals value the opportunity to make choices and exert control over their environment.
This perceived sense of agency has been shown to have broad influences on cognition …

Do we preferentially learn from outcomes that confirm our choices? In recent years, we
investigated this question in a series of studies implementing increasingly complex …

Cognitive dissonance theory suggests that our preferences are modulated by the mere act of
choosing. A choice between two similarly valued alternatives creates psychological tension …

Choice blindness is the finding that participants both often fail to notice mismatches between
their decisions and the outcome of their choice and, in addition, endorse the opposite of their …

Why do we sometimes opt for actions or items that we do not value the most? Under current
neurocomputational theories, such preference reversals are typically interpreted in terms of …

Hard decisions between equally valued alternatives can result in preference changes,
meaning that subsequent valuations for chosen items increase and decrease for rejected …

Toleration is one of the fundamental principles that inform the design of a democratic and
liberal society. Unfortunately, its adoption seems inconsistent with the adoption of …