State-dependent decisions cause apparent violations of rationality in animal choice

Normative models of choice in economics and biology usually expect preferences to be consistent across contexts, or ‘‘rational’’ in economic language. Following a large body of literature reporting economically irrational behaviour in humans, breaches of rationality by animals have also been recentl...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awduron: Pompilio, L, Schuck-Paim, C, Kacelnik, A
Fformat: Journal article
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2004