Rationality and cognitive bias in captive gorillas' and orang-utans' economic decision-making.

Human economic decision-making sometimes appears to be irrational. Partly, this is due to cognitive biases that can lead to suboptimal economic choices and context-dependent risk-preferences. A pertinent question is whether such biases are part of our evolutionary heritage or whether they are cultur...

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Main Authors: Penelope Lacombe, Sarah Brocard, Klaus Zuberbühler, Christoph D Dahl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278150