Straight Choices provides a fascinating introduction to the psychology of decision making,
enhanced by discussion of relevant examples of decision problems faced in everyday life …

An examination of the cognitive tools that the mind uses to grapple with uncertainty in the
real world. How do humans navigate uncertainty, continuously making near-effortless …

How do people decide whether to try out novel options as opposed to tried-and-tested
ones? We argue that they infer a novel option's reward from contextual information learned …

Making accurate judgments is an essential skill in everyday life. Although how different
memory abilities relate to categorization and judgment processes has been hotly debated …

When people use rule-based integration of abstracted cues to make multiple-cue judgments
they tend to default to linear additive integration of the cues, which may interfere with …

In the field of stimulus generalization, an old yet unresolved discussion pertains to what
extent stimulus misidentifications contribute to the pattern of conditioned responding. In this …

When people make risky decisions based on past experience, they must rely on memory.
The nature of the memory representations that support these decisions is not yet well …

The retrieval of past instances stored in memory can guide inferential choices and
judgments. Yet, little process-level evidence exists that would allow a similar conclusion for …

Reward magnitude is a central concept in most theories of preferential decision making and
learning. However, it is unknown whether variable rewards also influence cognitive …

Research on quantitative judgments from multiple cues suggests that judgments are
simultaneously influenced by previously abstracted knowledge about cue–criterion relations …