{"pk":28626,"title":"Under pressure: The influence of time limits on human exploration","subtitle":null,"abstract":"How does time pressure influence attitudes towards uncer-tainty? When time is limited, do people engage in differentexploration strategies? We study human exploration in a rangeof four-armed bandit tasks with different reward distributionsand manipulate the available time for each decision (limitedvs. unlimited). Through multiple behavioral and model-basedanalyses, we show that reactions towards uncertainty are influ-enced by time pressure. Specifically, participants seek out un-certain options when time is unlimited, but avoid uncertaintyunder time pressure. Moreover, larger relative differences inuncertainty between options slowed down reaction times anddampened the drift rate of a linear ballistic accumulator model.These results shed new light on the differential effect of uncer-tainty and time pressure on human exploration.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Exploration-exploitation; Uncertainty; Time Pres-sure; Directed Exploration; Multi-armed Bandits"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2mc9b380","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Charley","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Wu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Human Development","department":""},{"first_name":"Eric","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schulz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kimberly","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gerbaulet","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Human Development","department":""},{"first_name":"Timothy","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Pleskac","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Human Development","department":""},{"first_name":"Maarten","middle_name":"","last_name":"Speekenbrink","name_suffix":"","institution":"University College London","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28626/galley/18497/download/"}]}