The Levari Lab at Brown University uses social and cognitive psychology to study the behavioral science of performance evaluation, improvement, and learning.

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.

The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

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