Abstract How, and how well, do people switch between exploration and exploitation to search for and accumulate resources? We study the decision processes underlying such exploration/exploitation trade‐offs using a novel card selection task that captures the common situation of searching among multiple resources (e.g., jobs) that can be exploited without depleting. With experience, participants learn […]

Abstract Recent research indicates that interpersonal communication is noisy, and that people exhibit considerable insensitivity to problems in communication. Using a dyadic referential communication task, the goal of which is accurate information transfer, this study examined the extent to which interlocutors are sensitive to problems in communication and use other‐initiated repairs (OIRs) to address them. […]

One recurrent feature of social species is the differential degree of deference and advantage conferred on some individuals and denied to others. In recent decades, scholars have made substantial inroads into understanding the psychological foundations of these social asymmetries. Much of this work converges on the notion that social stratification in humans is the result […]