Preprint alert! We explore 3 exploration tasks, testing if they measure a stable construct & its link to real-world exploration. Findings suggest improved robustness of latent factors compared to single-task estimates. Work with @mirkothm & @cpilab 🔗osf.io/preprints/psya… 🧵⬇️

A growing number of studies uses few-armed bandit tasks to test how people explore. Recently, an increasing body of research (including our own) turned to individual differences in this behaviour and related model parameters to questionnaire measures of psychiatric traits.

This type of approach is very valuable. However, for treating individual differences in model parameters as cognitive traits, we need the model parameters to be: 🕐stable over time 🔗converging across tasks 📋related to real-world exploration