(Mal)adaptive biases in motivated action: computations, brains and psychopathology - Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging | FIL | UCL

We make predictably bad decisions. We eat the extra slice of cake, buy the expensive phone, and fail to save our planet. I want to understand how our motivations sway our actions in often seemingly irrational ways. A key observation is that behaviour is not only shaped by ‘rational’ learning from experience, but also by […]