Impulsivity is a multifaceted personality trait reflecting a tendency to act on immediate urges, often linked to maladaptive real-world behaviors. One facet of impulsivity, Positive Urgency—the tenden...

Happening tomorrow 🗓️ (May 20th) at McGill University, in collaboration with Paragraphe Bookstore: I will be giving a talk about the past, present and future of somatic mutation research. The live ev...

Like disadvantageous inequity aversion, advantageous inequity aversion can be learned by observing another’s fairness preferences.

A widespread observation is that people avoid mentally effortful courses of action, and much recent work examining cognitive effort has explained subjective effort evaluation – and, consequently, pref...

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npj Science of Learning - How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making

Efficiency demands that we work smarter and not harder, but is this better for our wellbeing? Here, we ask if exerting effort on a task can increase f…

A growing body of evidence across psychology suggests that (cognitive) effort exertion increases in proximity to a goal state. For instance, previous work has shown that participants respond more quic...

When given a choice, people will avoid cognitively effortful courses of action because the experience of effort is evaluated as aversive and costly. At the same time, a body of work spanning psycholog...