Alex Lloyd, Jonathan P Roiser, Sarah Skeen, Ze Freeman, Aygun Badalova, Adeola Agunbiade, Chuma Busakhwe, Carla DeFlorio, Anna Marcu, Heather Pirie, Romana Saleh, Theresa Snyder, Pasco Fearon, Essi Viding
In many everyday decisions, individuals choose between trialling something novel or something they know well. Deciding when to try a new option or stick with an option that is already known to you, known as the "explore/exploit" dilemma, is an important feature of cognition that characterises a range of decision-making contexts encountered by humans. Recent evidence has suggested preferences in explore/exploit biases are associated with psychopathology, although this has typically been examined within individual disorders...
April 23, 2024: Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience