Summary
When people make decisions under uncertainty or with incomplete information, people may rely on mental “fill‑ins” that are part of everyday intelligence but can sometimes lead to errors, like jumping to the wrong conclusion. This project asks why those “quick but wrong” choices happen and whether they arise from the same basic rules of intelligent behavior in humans and comparative animal models. Examining these processes in species that lack language is important for being able to understand the origins of reasoning and the principles that are independent of language abilities. Investigating
