Goal congruency dominates reward value in accounting for behavioral and neural correlates of value-based decision-making

Decision-making research has confounded the reward value of options with their goal-congruency, as the task goal was always to pick the most rewarding option. Here, authors separately asked participants to select the least rewarding of a set of options, revealing a dominant role for goal congruency.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Romy Frömer, Carolyn K. Dean Wolf, Amitai Shenhav
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12931-x