Do humans make good decisions?

Human performance on perceptual classification tasks approaches that of an ideal observer, but economic decisions are often inconsistent and intransitive, with preferences reversing according to the local context. We discuss the view that suboptimal choices may result from the efficient coding of de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Summerfield, C, Tsetsos, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015