Random behavior is stable across tasks and time

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<p>Whether it’s choosing a tennis serve or escaping a predator, the ability to behave randomly provides a range of adaptive benefits. Decades of work explores how people both produce and detect randomness, revealing profound non-random biases and heuristics in our mental representations of randomness. But how is randomness realized in the mind? Do individuals have a “one-size-fits-all” conception of randomness tha...

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• Brain Mapping
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• Decision Making
• Dopamine
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• Learning
• Models, Psychological
• Reinforcement, Psychology

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Literature Corpus work

026a0c17-e685-5a02-9661-27e9308c8f20

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/mtfdc_v1