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Random Generation is What Comes to Mind in Naturalistic Settings

2026-03-12

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<p>Being unpredictable is useful for creativity, exploration, and good decision-making. Decades of research asking people to generate random sequences of numbers have concluded that people systematically deviate from randomness, but individuals do so in very idiosyncratic ways. However, there is no consensus on the cause of these rich individual differences: most theories postulate that people achieve this by spen...

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8694d227-c984-5525-ba1a-74ebc436202d
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10.31234/osf.io/c9xq5_v2
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