{"pk":25648,"title":"The Role of Outcome Divergence in Goal-Directed Choice","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We assessed the influence of instrumental outcome\ndivergence – the extent to which actions differ in terms of\ntheir outcome probability distributions – on behavioral\npreference in a two-alternative forced choice task. We found\nthat participants preferred a pair of available actions with high\ndivergence to a pair with low divergence. The effect of\noutcome divergence, dissociated here from that of other\nmotivational and information theoretic factors, potentially\nreveals the value of flexible control.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Instrumental Outcome Divergence; Flexible\nControl; Goal-Directedness"},{"word":"Choice Preference"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pw4g8p8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Prachi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mistry","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California Irvine","department":""},{"first_name":"Mimi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Liljeholm","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California Irvine","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25648/galley/15272/download/"}]}