Some work and some play: microscopic and macroscopic approaches to labor and leisure.

Given the option, humans and other animals elect to distribute their time between work and leisure, rather than choosing all of one and none of the other. Traditional accounts of partial allocation have characterised behavior on a macroscopic timescale, reporting and studying the mean times spent in...

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Main Authors: Ritwik K Niyogi, Peter Shizgal, Peter Dayan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4256012?pdf=render