Experience that much work produces many reinforcers makes the sunk cost fallacy in pigeons: A preliminary test
The sunk cost fallacy is one of the irrational choice behaviors robustly observed in humans. This fallacy can be defined as a preference for a higher-cost alternative to a lower-cost one after previous investment in a higher-cost alternative. The present study examined this irrational choice by expo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00363/full |