Previous work shows that the adolescent reward system is hyperactive, but this finding may be confounded by differences in how teens value money. To address this, we examined the neural ontogeny of objective value representation. Adolescent and adult participants performed a monetary gambling task in which they chose to accept or reject gambles of varying expected value. Increasing expected val...

People show empathic responses to others' pain, yet how they choose to apportion pain between themselves and others is not well understood. To address this question, we observed choices to reapportion social allocations of painful stimuli and, for comparison, also elicited equivalent choices with money. On average people sought to equalize allocations of both pain and money, in a manner which i...

Decision making under risk is central to human behavior. Economic decision theory suggests that value, risk, and risk aversion influence choice behavior. Although previous studies identified neural correlates of decision parameters, the contribution of these correlates to actual choices is unknown. In two different experiments, participants chose between risky and safe options. We identified di...

The Allais Paradox is a well-known bias in which people’s preferences result in contradictory choices between two normatively identical gamble pairs. Studies have shown that these preference reversals depend on how information is described and presented. In an experiment, we investigate the Allais gambles in several formats including an experiential paradigm, where participants make selections ...

Many people find it hard to change their dietary choices. Food choice often occurs impulsively, without deliberation, and it has been unclear whether impulsive food choice can be experimentally created. Across 3 exploratory and 2 confirmatory preregistered experiments we examined whether impulsive food choice can be trained. Participants were cued to make motor responses upon the presentation o...

The problem of finding a longest increasing subsequence (LIS) is a well known task in sequence processing. There are many variants of the basic task. We discuss a recently introduced variant of LIS, a minimal height longest increasing subsequence problem and propose a new algorithm for it, which improves its time complexity. Moreover, we define a family of similar problems and introduce algorit...

Let Ln be the length of the longest increasing subsequence of a random permutation of the numbers 1, . . . , n, for the uniform distribution on the set of permutations. We discuss the “hydrodynamical approach” to the analysis of the limit behavior, which probably started with Hammersley (1972), and was subsequently further developed by several authors. We also give two proofs of an exact (non-a...

Two-dimensional Lorentzian geometry has recently found application in some models of nonrelativistic systems, most profitably for the process of boarding an aeroplane. The duration of the boarding process is assumed to be a result of passengers standing in the isle and blocking each others’ way. According to this model, the expected boarding time is equal to the length of the longest timelike g...

New algorithm for finding longest increasing subsequence is discussed. This algorithm is based on the ideas of idempotent mathematic and uses Max-Plus idempotent semiring. Problem of finding longest increasing subsequence is reformulated in a matrix form and solved with linear algebra.