https://www.selleckchem.com/products/wnk463.html These findings elucidate models of action control in social interactions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).The olfactory system represents the most acute and phylogenetically oldest device that the majority of organisms have to know their physical and social environment. In humans, however, the most predominant functional sense is sight, by virtue of an evolutionary path that has strongly limited the role of olfaction in decision making, social behavior, and cognition. The predominance of sight over smell in humans has important neurobiological, behavioral, and cognitive implications, which are discussed here in a comparative perspective. We propose a theoretical framework in which the psychological determinants of olfactory perception-phenomenological aspects, neuropsychological structures, emotional/affective correlates, cognitive mechanisms, decision-making dynamics, and behavioral outcomes-are coherently connected and integrated. Implications of this theoretical framework for research and for clinical and diagnostic practice are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).Bayesian theories of cognition assume that people can integrate probabilities rationally. However, several empirical findings contradict this proposition human probabilistic inferences are prone to systematic deviations from optimality. Puzzlingly, these deviations sometimes go in opposite directions. Whereas some studies suggest that people underreact to prior probabilities (base rate neglect), other studies find that people underreact to the likelihood of the data (conservatism). We argue that these deviations arise because the human brain does not rely solely on a general-purpose mechanism for approximating Bayesian inference that is invariant across queries. Instead, the brain is equipped with a recognition model that maps queries to probability distributions. The parameters of this reco