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Psychology

Behavior, decision-making, agency, regulation, perspective, bias, and uncertainty.

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Behavior and cognition under real constraints, states, and social conditions.

01Why is decision-making hard?02How does uncertainty change choice?03Why do people choose familiar actions?04What makes a good decision different from a good outcome?05Why do people notice confirming evidence?06How can confirmation bias affect research?

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Decision-Making
How agents select actions under goals, constraints, uncertainty, and competing values.
Why is decision-making hard?
02
Confirmation Bias
The tendency to privilege evidence that fits prior expectations.
Why do people notice confirming evidence?
03
Self-Regulation
Processes for monitoring and adjusting behavior, attention, emotion, and effort.
What is self-regulation?
04
Perspective
A way of representing a situation that changes which relationships become salient.
Can changing perspective change decisions?
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Agency
The capacity to initiate, select, and regulate action in relation to goals and conditions.
What makes an action feel possible?
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Uncertainty
A condition in which relevant states, outcomes, causes, or probabilities are not fully known.
Why does uncertainty feel uncomfortable?
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Behavior
Activity in response to internal or external conditions.
What counts as behavior?

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