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Deciding when to decide: How recency, urgency, risk, and bias shape human sequential decision-making: A case study across the obsessive-compulsive spectrum

2026-08-25

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Deciding when to stop gathering information and commit to a choice is a fundamental challenge in decision-making under uncertainty. Normative characterizations such as Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) prescribe mathematically optimal stopping rules; however, human evidence gathering systematically departs from optimality. Pathological departures -- such as the excessive indecisiveness charac...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.21.746184

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