Children's adaptive decision making and the costs of information search

Not all information is equally relevant for making good choices. Do children find it difficult to use information weights for an adaptive information search because of their insensitivity towards search costs? To address this question, we used an information-board game played either with or without search costs to compare decisions of 8- to 10-year-olds, 11- to 12-year-olds, and young adults. To assess the use of weights, we manipulated the...