A reward self-bias leads to more optimal foraging for ourselves than others

People are self-biased for rewards. We place a higher value on rewards if we receive them than if other people do. However, existing work has ignored one of the most powerful theorems from behavioural ecology of how animals seek resources in everyday life, the Marginal Value Theorem (MVT), which acc...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Contreras-Huerta, LS, Pisauro, MA, Küchenhoff, S, Gekiere, A, Le Heron, C, Lockwood, PL, Apps, MAJ
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: Nature Research 2024