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Research
Latest papers
Understanding social networks requires more than two dimensions.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2014 · senior author
Latest funding
- $160,000
Heuristics and Biases are (Nearly) Optimal: A Fresh Programmatic Study of Heuristics and Biases in Human Decision-Making
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $266,130
""Learning, memory, development, and evolution""
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
- $2,999,280
The evolution of religion and morality
SSHRC · 2011 · Co-investigator
1 publications.
Understanding social networks requires more than two dimensions.
Ruths D, Shultz T
Heuristics and Biases are (Nearly) Optimal: A Fresh Programmatic Study of Heuristics and Biases in Human Decision-Making
Principal investigators: Shultz, Thomas
Keywords: decision-making; biases; heuristics; bounded-rationality; sample-based expected-utility; resource-rationality; fallacies
""Learning, memory, development, and evolution""
Principal investigators: Shultz, Thomas
The evolution of religion and morality
Keywords: religion; morality; evolution of religion; cognitive science of religion; prosociality; cultural evolution; gene-culture coevolution
Cooperation and ethnocentrism
Principal investigators: Shultz, Thomas R.
Keywords: cooperation; ethnocentrism; agent-based modeling; evolution; learning; game theory
Knowledge acquisition
Principal investigators: Shultz, Thomas
Achieving cognitive consistency by neural constraint satisfaction
Principal investigators: Shultz, Thomas R.
Keywords: cognitive consistency; constraint satisfaction; artificial neural networks; cognitive dissonance; cognitive balance; belief perseverance; brain imaging
Cognitive development and reasoning
Principal investigators: Shultz, Thomas
Cognitive development and learning
Principal investigators: Shultz, Thomas
Achieving cognitive consistency through constraint satisfaction
Principal investigators: Shultz, Thomas
Keywords: Dissonance; balance; consistency; constraint satisfaction; neural networks; modelling
Generative connectionist models of cognition and learning
Principal investigators: Shultz, Thomas
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