Economic irrationality is optimal during noisy decision making

According to normative theories, reward-maximizing agents should have consistent preferences. Thus, when faced with alternatives A, B, and C, an individual preferring A to B and B to C should prefer A to C. However, it has been widely argued that humans can incur losses by violating this axiom of tr...

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Main Authors: Tsetsos, K, Moran, R, Moreland, J, Chater, N, Usher, M, Summerfield, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2016