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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Библиографические подробности
Главные авторы: Pompilio, L, Schuck-Paim, C, Kacelnik, A
Формат: Journal article
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2004