Always the same favorite place in the café. Always the same dish on the menu. Always the same route to work. Many things in our lives follow the motto: was good, stays good. But why is that? Researchers at the Technical University of Dresden have now found an answer to this question.
A team led by Professor Stefan Kiebel, an expert in cognitive computational neuroscience, i.e. the study of mental processes using computer models, has investigated how people make decisions. The research team used nine newly developed decision-making tasks as well as six existing data sets with a total of more than 700 participants. The study investigated how people initially become familiar with certain options and how they later decide when these reappear in new combinations.
