探索生命全程中的获益探索与损失规避

Navigating an uncertain world, we constantly face the explore-exploit dilemma: should we stick with what we know, or explore options that may or may not prove better? An influential theory proposes that humans solve this dilemma through a division of labor in time: explore in childhood, exploit in old age. Our work adds critical empirical nuance to this theory. Exploration can manifest as deliberate information-seeking (“directed exploration”) or choice randomness (“random exploration”), and these strategies are employed differently for gain-seeking and loss-avoidance. Here, we ask how these m