Contextual Factors Explain Risk-Seeking Preferences in Rhesus Monkeys
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Contextual Factors Explain Risk-Seeking Preferences in Rhesus Monkeys
In contrast to humans and most other animals, rhesus macaques strongly prefer risky rewards to safe ones with similar expected value. Why macaques prefer risk while other animals typically avoid it remains puzzling and challenges the idea that monkeys provide a model for human economic behavior. Here we argue that monkeys' risk-seeking preferences are neither mysterious nor unique. Risk-seeking...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Neuroscience
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1662-4548
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00007