Naïve optimality: Subjects' heuristics can be better motivated than experimenters' optimal models

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Abstract Is human cognition best described by optimal models, or by adaptive but suboptimal heuristic strategies? It is frequently hard to identify which theoretical model is normatively best justified. In the context of information search, naïve subjects' heuristic strategies are better motivated than some “optimal” models.

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