Hi, my name is Maué! I'm particularly interested in the measurement of risk taking and the cognitive processes underlying risk-taking behavior.
To what extent do existing tasks can inform researchers about individuals' propensity to take risks in real life ? I aim to better understand the discrepancy between the propensity to take risks in laboratory tasks and in real life. To this end, I aim to investigate how more naturalistic tasks can be implemented that better reflect real-life risk-taking behavior.
What are the cognitive processes underlying risk taking? Given that cognitive resources are limited, we have to adapt our strategies when making decisions under risk and uncertainty, depending on the amount of information to be processed. This is particularly true in real-life scenarios, where decisions can be complex and the amount of information available to make a decision exceeds our processing capacity. As a result, people need to select a subset of information. I would like to better understand what sources of information people rely on and what the underlying selection process is.