Resource-Rationality

Resource-rationality is an integrative framework for modeling cognitive mechanisms and representations that combines the strengths of normative principles with insights into the mind's cognitive limitations. We use resource-rational cognitive strategies as a realistic normative standard for assessing human rationality and as an achievable target for improving it.

Publications

1. Griffiths, T.L., Lieder, F., & Goodman, N.D. (2015). Rational use of cognitive resources: Levels of analysis between the computational and the algorithmic. Topics in Cognitive Science, 7(2), 217-229. [Article]
2. Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Hsu, M. (2018). Overrepresentation of Extreme Events in Decision Making Reflects Rational Use of Cognitive Resources. Psychological Review, 125(1), 1-32. doi: 10.1037/rev0000074 [Article]
3. Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Strategy selection as rational metareasoning. Psychological Review, 124(6), 762-794.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000075 [OSF Repository]
4. Lieder, F., Griffiths, T.L., Huys, Q.J.M., & Goodman, N.D. (2017). The anchoring bias reflects rational use of cognitive resources. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(1), pp. 322-349. [Article]
5. Lieder, F., Griffiths, T.L., Huys, Q.J.M., & Goodman, N.D. (2017). Empirical evidence for resource-rational anchoring and adjustment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(2), 775-784. doi:10.3758/s13423-017-1288-6 [Article]
6. Shenhav, A., Musslick, S., Lieder, F., Kool, W., Griffiths, T.L., Cohen, J.D., & Botvinick, M.M. (2017). Toward a rational and mechanistic account of mental effort. Annual Review of Neuroscience. [Article]
7. Callaway, F.*, Lieder, F.*, Das, P., Gul, S., Krueger, P.M., Griffiths, T.L. (accepted). A resource-rational analysis of human planning.
8. Milli, S., Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T.L. (under review). A rational reinterpretation of dual process theories.
9. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15636.40326 ¹These authors contributed equally.
10. Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (in preparation). Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources.