Policy mixes are widely used to accelerate low-carbon transitions, but their effects across different levels are unclear. Here the researchers show that a carbon tax and information intervention additively boost individual electric vehicle adoption but have divergent effects on system-level electric vehicle uptake and policy support.

Difficult decisions require gathering evidence over extended periods, placing demands on working memory. Yet, how working memory limitations affect decision-making remains largely unknown. We trained ...

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Scientific Reports - Domain-specific effects of hunger on attention and choice

When people face decisions with many options and attributes, they cannot look at everything. This study presents a new theory that explains how people distribute their attention in an efficient and go...

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

Humans focus less on nutritional information and more on how appetizing a food looks when deciding what to eat while hungry.

Extended multi-attribute attentional drift diffusion model reveals how attentional dynamics and weight shifts lead to less healthy decisions under hunger.

A new study has revealed how hunger influences dietary decisions by shifting attention towards tastier, but less healthy, food options.