Drawing together the metaphysics of counterfactuals with empirical work on intuitive judgments, this chapter discusses the nature of counterfactual reasoning about self-involving possibilities. It argues that when a person reasons about her …
Our everyday decisions are driven by costs, risk, and reward. How do people take these factors into account when they predict and explain the decisions of others? In a two-part experiment, we assessed people’s perceptions of other people’s risk …
Searching natural environments, as for example, when foraging or looking for a landmark, combines reasoning under uncertainty, planning and visual search. Existing paradigms for studying search in humans focus on step-by-step information sampling, …