Studies of life span development in everyday problem solving suggest two trajectories of change in adulthood: individuals become less effective at solving well-defined instrumental problems but more effective at managing ...

Two studies were conducted to examine the influence of individual differences in reward sensitivity and punishment sensitivity (i.e., the behavioral activation system and the behavioral inhibition system) on course selection ...

Decision-making is something we do every day, and is a broad research area that impacts disciplines spanning from economics to philosophy to psychology. The question of rational behavior has been of particular interest ...