Cognitive Modelling & Decision Neuroscience

Hunger drives humans to seek calorie-dense foods. This tendency has been evolutionary adaptive as it ensured survival under conditions of scarcity. With a change in our food environment this drive may no longer be adaptive and could lead to...

As humans, we have remarkable abilities to adjust our behavior to new challenges and situations. For example, we often need to master new technologies like smartphones or the internet. These abilities change throughout life, from childhood...

In this paper, we show that increasing the value of an inferior option makes two superior ones look less valuable. Interestingly we show that this distortion emerges as participants learn the rewards of options and persists in later...