Consider the range of social behaviours we engage in every day. In each case, there are a
multitude of unknowns, reflecting the many sources of uncertainty inherent to social …

Abstract Since February 2022, the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict significantly impacted
the digital landscape. This study examines the conflict's impacts on the local and global …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …

Several strands of research have aimed to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence (AI)
and human decision-makers in AI-assisted decision-making, where humans are the …

Despite decades of research on heuristics and biases, evidence on the effect of large
incentives on cognitive biases is scant. We test the effect of incentives on four widely …

The human brain has the impressive capacity to adapt how it processes information to high-
level goals. While it is known that these cognitive control skills are malleable and can be …

Objectives Cognitive and other biases can influence the quality of healthcare decision
making. While substantial research has explored how biases can lead to diagnostic or other …

For over 200 years, philosophers and mathematicians have be en using probability theory to
describe human cognition. While the theory of prob abilities was first developed as a means …

Human decision-making shows systematic simplifications and deviations from the tenets of
rationality ('heuristics') that may lead to suboptimal decisional outcomes ('cognitive biases') …