Fiery Andrews Cushman

To resolve moral dilemmas, people often rely on decision strategies such as cost-benefit reasoning (CBR) or following moral rules. Previous studies show that people learn to increasingly rely on whichever strategy led to better outcomes in …

Causal relationships, unlike mere co-occurrence, allow humans to obtain rewards and avoid punishments by intervening on their environment. Accordingly, explicit (controlled) evaluations of stimuli encountered in the environment are known to…