Personality articles within Nature Communications

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• Registered Report
  04 August 2022 | Open Access

  Value-free random exploration is linked to impulsivity

  Deciding between known rewarding options and exploring novel avenues is central to decision making. Humans show variability in their exploration. Here, the authors show that impulsivity is associated to an increased usage of a cognitively cheap (and sometimes sub-optimal) exploration strategy.

  • Magda Dubois
  •  & Tobias U. Hauser

• Article
  23 May 2018 | Open Access

  Trait paranoia shapes inter-subject synchrony in brain activity during an ambiguous social narrative

  Reactions to the same event can vary vastly based on multiple factors. Here the authors show that people with high trait-level paranoia process ambiguous information in a narrative differently and this can be attributed to greater activity in mentalizing brain regions during the moments of ambiguity.

  • Emily S. Finn
  • , Philip R. Corlett
  •  & R. Todd Constable