Why Attackers Thrive on Chaos and Defenders on Vigilance in Human Conflict
A new iScience study of 528 participants reveals that offensive success in human conflict depends on strategic unpredictability, while defensive ...
Tag: decision-making
From Climate Games to Earthquakes: New Research Probes How Humans Decide Under Risk and Ambiguity
A new collection of studies in Frontiers in Behavioral Economics shows that ambiguity suppresses climate cooperation, community engagement drives earthquake ...
Smarter Self-Driving Brains Pair Two AI Controllers to Cut Collisions and Jerky Rides
A new hierarchical reinforcement learning framework pairing DDQN and DDPG cuts collision rates by more than half and reduces passenger ...
Why Green Farming Adoption Is a Four-Player Game: New Model Reveals Who Really Moves the Needle
A new evolutionary game model reveals that green farming adoption depends on coordinated support from government, banks, and technology service ...
MOZAIC: New Mathematical Framework Turns Ambiguous Behavioral Theories Into Precise Agent-Based Model Building Blocks
Researchers introduce MOZAIC, a four-step mathematical framework for formalizing behavioral theories into reusable building blocks for agent-based models, demonstrated on ...
Why Parents Reach for Oils During Infant Massage: New Qualitative Study From Türkiye
Infant massage is one of humanity's oldest caregiving rituals, and in many cultures it comes with a bottle of oil ...
Your Brain Really Does Average Numbers, New Study Finds
A new pair of experiments shows that people genuinely compute the average of symbolic digit arrays, with mean distance from ...
Mapping the Hidden System That Keeps People With Intellectual Disabilities Out of Cancer Screening
A Dutch team used group model building to map 48 interconnected factors that shape whether people with intellectual disabilities complete ...
Winning at Rock-Paper-Scissors Reveals How Context Trumps Body Language
A motion-capture study of rock-paper-scissors shows that in fast-paced competition, contextual inference based on reinforcement learning outperforms reading an opponent's ...
Good Moods Boost Men’s Risky Decisions but Leave Women’s Unmoved, Study Finds
A new experiment using the Iowa Gambling Task shows that induced positive moods significantly improve men's decision-making while women's performance ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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