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    "pk": 25608,
    "title": "When to use which heuristic: A rational solution to the strategy selection problem",
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    "abstract": "The human mind appears to be equipped with a toolbox full\nof cognitive strategies, but how do people decide when to use\nwhich strategy? We leverage rational metareasoning to derive\na rational solution to this problem and apply it to decision making\nunder uncertainty. The resulting theory reconciles the two\npoles of the debate about human rationality by proposing that\npeople gradually learn to make rational use of fallible heuristics.\nWe evaluate this theory against empirical data and existing\naccounts of strategy selection (i.e. SSL and RELACS). Our\nresults suggest that while SSL and RELACS can explain people’s\nability to adapt to homogeneous environments in which\nall decision problems are of the same type, rational metareasoning\ncan additionally explain people’s ability to adapt to heterogeneous\nenvironments and flexibly switch strategies from\none decision to the next.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Strategy Selection; Decision Making; Heuristics;\nBounded Rationality; Cognitive Control; Learning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9497r96p",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Falk",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lieder",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California at Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "L",
            "last_name": "Griffiths",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California at Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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