Integration of Personal vs. Social Information for Sustainable Decisions on Climate Action

Some of my past and current research looks at "decisions from  experience,” i.e., decisions based on the personally experienced outcomes of past choices, along the lines of reinforcement learning models and how such learning and updating is related to and differs from the way in which people and other intelligent agents use other sources of information, e.g., vicarious feedback (anecdotal/social and/or in the form of statistical distributions of outcomes) or science- or model-based outcome predictions to make “decisions from description.”  What happens when these different sources of foreca

Homo sapiens dans la cité

HomoSapiensPourquoi les humains se souviennent-ils d’un visage rencontré cinquante ans plus tôt, mais oublient de payer leurs factures à l’heure ? Pourquoi n’arrive-t-on pas à réduire les émissions de CO2 dans l’atmosphère, alors que nous sommes tous concernés par la survie de la planète ?