🚨 New paper from @ranimo.bsky.social & colleagues in Nature Communications! People automatically learn values for irrelevant action features, even when they know they don’t predict reward, and these values can distort their choices. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Automatic value learning results in counterproductive human behavior - Nature Communications
Humans use rewards to learn which actions are worth repeating. Here, the authors demonstrate an automatic tendency to credit unrelated actions for these rewards, driving suboptimal choices.
