In our daily lives, we make a wide variety of decisions. One major distinction that has been made is between perceptual decisions and value-based (economic) We argue this ill-defined, because these vary on multiple dimensions. present an alternative way to categorize decisions, based two dimensions: subjective versus objective criteria, evaluation stimulus representation. experimentally study t...

How do we construct abstract ideas like justice, mathematics, or time-travel? In this paper we investigate whether mental representations that result from physical experience underlie people's more abstract mental representations, using the domains of space and time as a testbed. People often talk about time using spatial language (e.g., a long vacation, a short concert). Do people also think a...

In an increasingly aging society, age has become a foundational dimension of social grouping broadly targeted by advertising and governmental policies. However, perception of old age induces mainly strong negative social biases. To characterize their cognitive and perceptual foundations, we modeled the mental representations of faces associated with three age groups (young age, middle age, and ...