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The effort of asking good questions

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How do humans choose which information to pursue when solving a task? New research shows that choosing the most informative signals is cognitively demanding. The efficiency of this process is enhanced by time pressure but, remarkably, not by monetary incentives.

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Gottlieb, J. The effort of asking good questions. Nat Hum Behav 5, 823–824 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01132-6

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